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A Secure Network is a Healthy Network

Enterprises that have moved to an adaptive trust approach are responding confidently to the
demands of BYOD, cloud, and IoT. Consulate Health Care is among the security thought
leaders that have moved to an adaptive trust approach that protects against insider threats. The
health care center had hundreds of company-issued mobile devices and thousands of guest
devices that connected to the network daily, but security wasn’t air tight.

Consulate wanted to assign policies to the connecting devices based on user role and device
that would serve both visitors and employees and protect patient information and other private
healthcare data. The new defense approach provides the center with much better security
around its intensely dynamic mobile environment.

Prior to establishing a valid connection, corporate-owned and personal devices must meet
compliance policies. Devices failing to meet requirements are automatically quarantined and the
users are asked to resolve the issues.

Once recognized as compliant, patients, residents and family members can complete the self-
enrollment process for Internet access that won’t affect the security of the internal network.
However, when the center’s health care employees connect to the network, they are granted
access to internal resources.

Based on user role and device ownership IT can easily define which resources they should
have access to – thus reducing the chance of compromising patient information. Consulate is
now much more confident that its data and systems are safe from any insider threats.

When enterprises take an adaptive trust approach, IT can make smarter decisions about how
users and devices connect and how their access privileges are enforced. This is required for
today’s mobile workforce – which will continue to push the boundaries of network security for
years to come. In this fast-paced, upwardly mobile world, the best defense is being able to
adapt.

About the Author

Michael Netterberg, Solution Architect, Networking at Aruba, a Hewlett
Packard Enterprise company

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