Symantec Managed Security Services Helps Danbury Hospital Secure Critical Patient Information

Symantec Managed Security Services Helps Danbury Hospital Secure Critical Patient Information

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that Danbury Hospital is using Symantec Managed Security Services to help ensure its critical patient information is secure, facilitate compliance, and optimize the hospital’s IT budget. Using Symantec Managed Security Services for monitoring and managing its security network, Danbury Hospital has dramatically reduced the number of threats to its network and eliminated the need to hire around-the-clock, in-house security experts.

Danbury Hospital, a regional medical center serving residents of Connecticut and New York, is ranked among the nation’s Top 100 Hospitals . Danbury’s most critical IT issues are information security and ensuring compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which governs the protection and availability of patient medical records.

“For a hospital like Danbury, security is a 24/7 job,” says Susan Fronapfel, manager of information technology and security, Danbury Hospital. “We must strike a balance between providing patients and healthcare providers with access to information, while ensuring that sensitive patient data is kept secure and private at all times.”

Previously, Danbury’s IT staff spent up to four hours each day reviewing threat logs and identifying potentially serious threats that could affect the hospital. With Symantec Managed Security Services, Danbury now receives immediate notification of any threats that are critical enough to merit action, while automatically filtering out the irrelevant or harmless threats. As a result, the hospital now evaluates an average of two threats each month rather than 30.

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