Healthcare

HIPAA mandates that all healthcare organizations that collect, transfer or access patient information must be able to verify security, confidentiality and privacy for that information. These requirements extend across networks, systems and applications at hospitals, research institutions, insurance providers, federal agencies and private practices. The task is immense, and the penalties for any breach in compliance are severe. Lancope's StealthWatch® System for anomaly detection and network performance monitoring across physical and virtual networks is a key part of the HIPAA compliance prescription.

Leveraging NetFlow and sFlow from the network infrastructure to deliver real time visibility, StealthWatch eliminates network blind spots and reduces total network and security management costs.

How does StealthWatch help?

• Provides cost-effective network management and information protection solutions that deploy quickly
• Detects, mitigates and resolves internal and external threats, such as stealthy scans, new worms and Trojans that bypass firewalls and signature-based security systems
• Continuously monitors enterprise network activity without installing host-based agents — which can be costly and time consuming
• Delivers easy-to-analyze real-time tracking and historical auditing of access to ePHI servers from across a healthcare organization's network
• Immediately alerts based on unexpected network usage patterns and security policy violations, such attempted access to ePHI servers from an unauthorized network zone
• Automates discovery and profiling of new or unauthorized network devices

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Concord Hospital Deploys StealthWatch
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Concord Hospital in New Hampshire is using StealthWatch to analyze NetFlow traffic from its extensive Nortel infrastructure to gain end-to-end network visibility, improve troubleshooting and enhance network security.

“StealthWatch has saved us a great deal of time, especially with extremely complex troubleshooting,” said Mark Starry, manager of enterprise architecture and security for Concord Hospital. “In one incident, we suspected spyware had been installed on some of our devices based on strange traffic patterns on an unused port. Immediately, StealthWatch detected the anomalous activity and revealed that misconfigured devices were the underlying issue.” Learn more