ArcSight Case Study: Weill Cornell Medical College
| Summary: | Weill Cornell Medical College faces some unique security challenges. It has to juggle the often-conflicting demands of regulatory compliance and academic freedom. |
| Business Challenge: |
To preserve the integrity of patient data and reduce overall risk, Weill Cornell needed to understand what was happening on its network at all times. It also needed to connect the dots across all network activity to detect sources of risk and eliminate potential problems. |
| Solution: | ArcSight ESM enables Weill Cornell to intelligently correlate event data, meet compliance requirements and mitigate network threats. |
| Benefits: | With ArcSight ESM, Weill Cornell successfully defends against 12,000 security attacks per year. Time savings for remediating compromised systems is expected to be roughly 3,120 staff hours per year, or $120,000. The organization has also driven down asset vulnerabilities by 50%. Other benefits include peace of mind around protecting patient data and stopping identity theft. "The ArcSight SIEM platform makes it easy to solve our entire range of monitoring and security challenges," says Benjamin Nathan, Associate Director of Security and Identity Management, Weill Cornell Medical College. |
