The program kicked off in April 2017, during the formation of Beacon, which required the health system to consolidate policies and to implement a more unified and centralized cybersecurity program. Fortified discovered through its baseline research that the health system had moderate cybersecurity system development with data loss prevention, and had deployed a SIEM solution on limited systems. In addition, like most healthcare organizations today, there was zero SIEM visibility into their medical device inventory, as well as the risks associated with those connected devices.
“Fortified allowed me the liberty of telling them what I needed and when I needed it,” said Brian Abel, Director of Information Security and Project Management at Beacon Health System. “They gave me the architecture and the hands to get it done. They ran on my schedule. That’s rare.”
To address the issues at hand, Fortified worked alongside Beacon’s team of security professionals to implement an industry leading data loss prevention solution to gain visibility into what data was moving about within, as well as leaving, the organization, and to develop new technical policies for safely transmitting sensitive data. Fortified’s Vulnerability Threat Management (VTM) solution was also deployed, quickly giving Beacon critical visibility into all its cybersecurity solutions working in tandem and in real time. This solution and managed service enables Beacon to determine an actual vs. perceived threat via a consolidated single pane of glass dashboard.
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