Information Security, Endpoint Protection, Threat Readiness, and Data Loss Prevention

Executive Summary

Overview
Barnabas Health is New Jersey’s largest integrated healthcare delivery system and the second largest private employer in the state. With more than 19,600 employees, 4,750 physicians (one-fourth of the state’s practicing physicians), and 450 medical residents in 19 approved residency programs, Barnabas Health provides treatment and services for more than two million patients each year. The award-winning Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey—one of 11 hospitals in the system—is the state’s oldest and largest nonprofit, nonsectarian hospital.
Barriers
Like other healthcare providers, Barnabas Health faced a significant challenge: the need to secure and manage large amounts of mission-critical and highly sensitive electronic data. With its medical staff focused on patient care at the front end, the Barnabas Health information technology (IT) security team had to ensure the organization’s health in the backend environment. The team needed to secure and
protect the healthcare system’s critical data while achieving regulatory compliance, eliminating risks to information, and reducing the time and cost of executing all of the institution’s day-to-day processes.
The Solution
With patient care as the mandate and the driver across the entire organization, the Barnabas Health IT security team undertook a series of software implementations to ensure that the healthcare system’s information security needs were met on an ongoing basis. The team deployed Symantec solutions to address endpoint security (Symantec Endpoint Protection), data loss prevention (Symantec Data Loss Prevention), and threat response and readiness (Symantec Security Information Manager and DeepSight Threat Management System). Barnabas Health also engaged Symantec Business Critical Services for a number of these software implementations.
Benefits
A Total Operational and Economic Impact (TOEI®) analysis by Alchemy Group, Inc. found that Symantec solutions delivered significant operational and economic benefits to Barnabas Health. By automating labor-intensive tasks and providing better analysis tools, the Symantec solutions and associated process improvements dramatically reduced the time that IT staff spent on security activities. Actual and projected
savings of more than $2.7 million are quantified for the period of January 2008 through December 2012.

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