Case Study: MedStar Montgomery Medical Center achieves stronger email defense and reduces incident remediation from 20 hours to 30 minutes with Proofpoint

Hospital Effectively Guards Its ‘front Door’ From Email Threats

MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, part of the MedStar Health system and a Joint Commission–certified Primary Stroke Center, faced a sharp rise in sophisticated email threats—malicious Word and JavaScript attachments, and business email compromise—while operating with a small IT staff and strict HIPAA obligations. The hospital needed a solution that would stop threats before they reached the network, minimize administrative overhead, and protect patient data.

MedStar deployed Proofpoint Email Protection, Targeted Attack Protection, and Information Protection (including email encryption), using a cloud-based, vendor-managed rollout. The result was improved detection and filtering accuracy, proactive removal of suspicious messages, automatic encryption of sensitive outbound email, consolidated visibility into email traffic, and a drop in incident investigation time from as much as 20 hours to under 30 minutes.

Medstar Montgomery Medical Center

Christiane Brown

Medstar Montgomery Medical Center