Case Study: Major Cancer Research and Treatment Center achieves comprehensive patient and research data protection with Proofpoint

Major cancer center safeguards patient and research data with Proofpoint

A major, nationally recognized cancer research and treatment center affiliated with a state university needed to protect patient and research data across an open academic network. Despite substantial perimeter defenses, the organization required a comprehensive information protection program to secure both structured and unstructured data, meet healthcare privacy requirements, and strengthen its internal security culture.

Proofpoint delivered Managed Services for Information Protection with a phased DLP deployment that identified and prioritized critical assets (including genomic research), tuned policies to minimize false positives, and provided continuous SOC monitoring, analytics, and platform engineering. The program enabled rapid detection and response (including stopping a policy-based data transfer), ongoing alerting and compliance reporting, and a clearer, more actionable security posture as an extension of the center’s security team.