Interfaith's zero trust network protects against cyberattacks, saves $2 million

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https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/interfaith-s-zero-trust-network-protects-against-cyberattacks-saves-2-million

By Bill Siwicki
Healthcare IT News
September 03, 2019

Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, is a 287-bed non-profit 
teaching hospital with ambulatory care clinics that treat more than 250,000 
patients every year,

THE PROBLEM

Christopher Frenz, assistant vice president of information security at 
Interfaith, is a strong believer in testing security and empirically 
determining how secure an organization actually is.

By 2015, it was becoming clear to him that eventually a hospital was going to 
be hit by a ransomware attack. This sparked his interest in determining just 
how well Interfaith would be able to withstand an attack.

“One of the ways I approached this was simulating a mass malware outbreak 
within the hospital, using a custom developed script and the EICAR test 
string,” he explained. “Running the script attempted to copy and execute the 
EICAR test string on each PC within the organization to simulate the lateral 
movement of a threat within the hospital.

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