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Health Care Insurance Company Enhances Security with Check Point SandBlast

Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Malware Protection
Sensors - Temperature Sensors

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals
National Security & Defense

Use Cases

Supply Chain Visibility
Tamper Detection

About The Customer

The customer is a large U.S. health insurance carrier. This independent, not-for-profit organization has provided health care services in its state for more than 30 years. Like other organizations in the health care sector, it has experienced intensified cyber-attacks within the past 12 to 18 months. The company took decisive steps early in 2015 to boost its defenses. Over time, it had acquired multiple point solutions, each with its own set of capabilities. Now the company wanted to add layers of security and new features to close some gaps.

The Challenge

The health insurance company, a large U.S. carrier, was facing a growing number of cyber-attacks, putting patient care data and financial data at risk. The company had multiple point solutions, each with its own set of capabilities, and wanted to add layers of security and new features to close some gaps, such as improving Data Loss Prevention (DLP) coverage. The company had multiple, separate firewalls for web filtering, content filtering, and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) protection. As the CISO and his team evaluated their options, they looked at Palo Alto Networks, F5, FireEye, and several niche solutions. However, none of them offered the unique combination of comprehensive features, high scalability, centralized threat visibility, and low IT overhead that they wanted.

The Solution

After conducting a proof-of-concept evaluation with one other vendor, the company chose Check Point’s SandBlast Zero-Day Protection solution. Check Point SandBlast protects networks from even the most sophisticated malware and zero-day threats, using Threat Emulation sandboxing and Threat Extraction technologies. The health insurance company migrated to SandBlast over several months to avoid disrupting its existing environment. It gained consolidated Check Point firewall, IPS, Virtual Private Network (VPN), DLP, zero-day protection, web filtering, and anti-bot protection capabilities in a single, easily manageable solution.

Operational Impact

The implementation of Check Point’s SandBlast Zero-Day Protection solution has significantly improved the company's security infrastructure. Before SandBlast, other parts of the infrastructure had missed a significant number of malicious emails, attachments, and zero-day malware. As soon as SandBlast was deployed, the CISO and his team saw a much higher catch rate. In early 2016, when ransomware proliferated, the company was able to prevent a successful attack. The solution's high-quality graphs and visualization capabilities give the CISO and his team real-time cyber threat visibility. They can move from high-level views to detailed views in a click to quickly understand how threats are behaving. This enables them to fine-tune policies or other security measures if necessary to continuously enhance the security.

Quantitative Benefit

Increased malware catch rate, blocking malicious files and ransomware attacks from infiltrating the network
Gained a single dashboard for environment-wide visibility and higher team productivity
Built foundation for adding protection without adding complexity