Case Study: Bolton NHS Foundation Trust protects patient care and detects hidden attackers with Vectra AI Inc.'s Cognito platform

Protecting patient information and ensuring quality care

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, which serves more than 140,000 people across community health centers and the Royal Bolton Hospital, faced the challenge of protecting sensitive patient data and maintaining continuous care as digital services, cloud adoption and medical IoT devices expanded. After the WannaCry outbreak highlighted risks, the trust needed continuous monitoring to detect hidden attackers across a complex mix of data center and cloud workloads, user devices and connected medical equipment.

Bolton NHS deployed Vectra Cognito, an AI-powered network detection and response platform that analyzes network metadata, logs and cloud events with always-learning behavioral models to automate threat detection, triage and investigations. The solution exposed previously hidden attacks, gave the security team unprecedented visibility across on‑premises and cloud environments, reduced manual threat-hunting workload and sped response times—helping protect patient information and keep clinical services running.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Brett Walmsley

CTO