Health Care

The Opportunity

Health care organizations such as insurance providers, care groups and hospitals are mandated by law to keep their corporate and customer assets protected from growing security threats, primarily due to HIPAA but also Sarbanes-Oxley and others, depending on their circumstances. The FBI estimates that 1% of security breaches are successful. In one case, a major health care provider reported 140,000 alerts generated and 12,000 deemed critical which translates to more breaches, not to mentions alerts, than their staff could possibly handle.

The BT Counterpane Solution

BT Counterpane's Managed Security Monitoring provides Health Care providers with both the protection needed to mitigate the threat of breaches in violation of HIPAA and other privacy laws but the reporting back needed to ensure audits are satisfied. In one case, a BT Counterpane managed health insurance provider terminated an employee and BT Counterpane provided the evidence necessary to show that the employee had breached the network upon termination. Avoiding notification for breach with this audit data saved considerable time and money for the customer.

BT Counterpane provides highly trained experts and sophisticated surveillance technology to stay ahead of today's software vulnerabilities, malicious insiders, and attackers from the outside. These Managed Security Services include:

Managed Security Monitoring - 24x7x365 protection of over 500 enterprise data networks worldwide by trained security analysts located in Security Operations Centers on call to alert customers to potential threats and real time attacks as they happen.

Vulnerability Scanning - internal and external scanning of enterprise networks to identify weakness in relation to known threats.

Device Management - full- or co-management of firewalls and intrusion detection / prevention systems using best practices applied by experts.

Security Consulting - assistance with network security architecture, policy development, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, forensics and attack response efforts.

Read how BT Counterpane's Managed Security Services save one health insurer money in Secure Enterprise's profile of The Regence Group.