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Coxhealth's Dynamic Scaling of Security with Hyperscale Maestro Checkpoint Orchestrator

Technology Category
  • Networks & Connectivity - Gateways
  • Networks & Connectivity - Routers & Bridges
Applicable Industries
  • Healthcare & Hospitals
  • National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions
  • Quality Assurance
Use Cases
  • Tamper Detection
  • Traffic Monitoring
Services
  • Cybersecurity Services
  • System Integration
The Challenge
CoxHealth, a leading regional healthcare system in southwest Missouri, faced a significant challenge in securing high traffic levels generated by COVID work-from-home requirements. The healthcare system's priority was to keep the network at maximum performance without allowing a cyber attack or malware to affect the network and cause an emergency system crash or interrupt patient care. However, the shift of 3,500 employees from onsite to work-from-home environments tripled network bandwidth usage and strained firewalls to capacity due to external traffic coming in over VPNs. Outlying clinics' network connections were also strained. Additionally, CoxHealth had to quickly install temporary kiosk environments, which also needed network connectivity, across the region to conduct COVID testing.
About The Customer
CoxHealth is a leading regional healthcare system in southwest Missouri. Established in 1906, it has grown to serve patients across five campuses, operating six hospitals, more than 80 clinics, and five emergency rooms with 12,000 employees. The CoxHealth Springfield hospital has been named to U.S. News & World Report's Best Regional Hospitals list for seven years. The system also ranks in the top 10% of U.S. hospitals for patient safety in overall hospital, medical, and surgical care. However, the COVID pandemic posed new security challenges for the healthcare system, forcing it to adapt quickly to ensure the safety and continuity of its operations.
The Solution
To cope with the new demands, CoxHealth engaged Check Point to upgrade the healthcare system's firewalls to Check Point Quantum Security Gateways. This provided the capacity and performance needed to meet the skyrocketing traffic demands. CoxHealth also implemented a Check Point Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator appliance, which took scalability to an entirely new level, also increasing resilience and control. Maestro enabled flexible cloud-based security with the ability to seamlessly expand existing security gateways to hyperscale capacity. Each appliance enabled a single gateway to expand to the capacity and performance of 52 gateways in just minutes. With Maestro, CoxHealth ensured security capacity exactly where it was needed, as it was needed. The CoxHealth network team easily managed Maestro and Quantum Security Gateways with their existing Check Point R80 Security Management platform.
Operational Impact
  • With the implementation of Check Point Quantum Security Gateways and Check Point Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator appliance, CoxHealth was able to maintain network and security continuity even with the shift of 3,500 employees to work-from-home environments. The Check Point Maestro appliance efficiently load-balanced traffic coming through the Quantum Security Gateways from the external internet without any intervention by the network team. Changing policies on Maestro or the Quantum Security Gateways was as easy as it was on the previous Check Point firewalls. With R80 Security Management's graphic user interface, anyone on the team could review logs and search current policies. This adaptability and ease of management provided CoxHealth with peace of mind, knowing that their security defenses were optimized for any future challenges.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Network bandwidth usage tripled without causing network or security continuity issues
  • Each appliance enabled a single gateway to expand to the capacity and performance of 52 gateways in just minutes
  • Terabit-per-second firewall throughput was achieved

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