Case Study: BayCare Protects 33,000 Medical Devices with Zingbox IoT Guardian

Healthcare System Protects Medical Devices with Zingbox IoT Guardian

BayCare, a leading not-for-profit healthcare system with 15 hospitals and hundreds of locations across Tampa Bay and West Central Florida, needed better protection for its networked medical and IoT devices. Like many healthcare organizations, BayCare struggled with legacy medical equipment that could not easily be patched or safely scanned using traditional IT security tools, leaving the team with limited visibility into how devices were communicating and behaving. Zingbox’s IoT Guardian was evaluated as a non-intrusive, agentless way to address this challenge.

Zingbox implemented IoT Guardian to provide BayCare with visibility into device communications without installing software on the devices themselves. The solution quickly discovered and identified thousands of devices, flagged critical threats, and enabled alerts by text, email, and dashboard, all monitored 24/7 by BayCare’s security operations center. BayCare rolled the solution out across all 15 hospitals in just three weeks and now monitors 33,000 medical and IoT devices, gaining better protection and usage insights for analytics.

BayCare

Ralph Oliva

Manager of Medical Device Integration & Security