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<\/span><\/div><\/p>\nImagine sitting in an exam room at a hospital, waiting to find out the result of an important test, but your doctor can\u2019t access it because the electronic medical records system has been corrupted by malware.<\/p>\n
For HealthPartners, an award-winning integrated healthcare system based in Bloomington, Minnesota, securing patient information is necessary to provide world-class healthcare services. To protect the organization\u2019s sensitive healthcare data, HealthPartners needed a security platform with next-generation capabilities and increased visibility.<\/p>\n
After declining an expensive hardware refresh opportunity with its previous vendor, HealthPartners selected Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform for about half the cost.<\/p>\n
HealthPartners improved its security posture by deploying six PA-5220s<\/a> along with subscriptions to Threat Prevention<\/a>, URL Filtering<\/a>, WildFire<\/a>\u00a0cloud-based threat analysis service, Traps<\/a>\u00a0advanced endpoint protection, AutoFocus<\/a>\u00a0contextual threat intelligence service and Panorama<\/a>\u00a0network security management.<\/p>\n The move gave HealthPartners advanced endpoint protection on all its workstations and servers while segmenting its PCI traffic more securely, reducing PCI scope and strengthening compliance.<\/p>\n HealthPartners saw the following benefits after deploying Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform:<\/p>\n \"There are a lot of exciting opportunities that we haven\u2019t had before,\u201d says Joel Pfeifer, principal security analyst at HealthPartners. \u201cBecause of the consistency and high percentage of true positives we get from the Palo Alto Networks platform, we have the confidence now to automate. We could take advantage of information the Palo Alto Networks platform provides and automate threat mitigation. That\u2019s something we\u2019ve never had the opportunity to do until now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n