Premier Healthcare Provider Standardizes on
Aruba to Deliver Improved Experiences to Patients and Staff While
Ensuring Network Visibility and IoT Security
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today
announced that St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital, a 571-bed
acute care facility in Jackson, Mississippi, has standardized on
Aruba wired, wireless – including Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) – and security
solutions to deliver superior care to patients, improve
productivity for its 3,000+ nurses, doctors and skilled caregivers,
and ensure a secure connected experience for the almost 15,000
mobile and IoT devices on the provider’s network.
St. Dominic’s comprises a large main campus of 12 buildings, as
well as approximately 35 associated clinics. The provider had
previously deployed Aruba access points and mobility controllers,
as well as the ClearPass Policy Manager and AirWave network
management, as part of a multivendor network that also utilized
Alcatel switches. The IT team determined that it was time to
upgrade the organization’s switching infrastructure, as well as
address one of its key concerns moving forward – visibility of
devices on the network and the mitigation of security threats.
After evaluating solutions from Cisco, incumbent vendor Alcatel,
and others, St. Dominic’s determined that Aruba could better
address the full range of its wireless, switching and security
needs.
“It was important for us to ensure a smooth integration of new
equipment into the existing network infrastructure to minimize
disruption, simplify management of the network, and keep costs
low,” said Murray Farrar, Infrastructure Architect for St.
Dominic’s. “We’ve had a great experience with our Aruba wireless,
AirWave and ClearPass solutions and felt that Aruba could deliver a
complete package, from wireless to switching to security, and
enable seamless integration between all the elements.”
With the help of channel partner, Pileum Corporation, St.
Dominic’s deployed additional Aruba access points, including new
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 APs, Aruba access switches at the edge, and
IntroSpect, to integrate with the organization’s existing ClearPass
solution, bringing increased visibility and security into the
network. St. Dominic’s also completed a Proof of Concept with the
Aruba 8320 Series core and aggregation switches and plans to
replace their existing core switches with the Aruba gear.
With the wireless network becoming increasingly critical for
both internal operations, as well as patients and guests, the IT
team had deployed ClearPass to segment and manage the traffic,
assigning roles to each device depending on type of device and who
is using it, so they can easily differentiate, for example, between
a medical device in a patient room and an iPad in the visitor
lobby, giving each the right level of secure access. With the new
Aruba switches in place, the IT team plans to leverage ClearPass to
segment its wired traffic as well.
The integration between ClearPass and IntroSpect was crucial for
St. Dominic’s as they grapple with more IoT devices such as IV
pumps, heart monitors, and other medical equipment on their
network, and the need to ensure that these devices won’t compromise
security.
Matt Smith, Security Architect for St. Dominic’s noted,
“Introspect gives us a more complete picture because it’s looking
at all the traffic. We’re able to gain visibility into the behavior
of devices on the network and – via the tight integration with
ClearPass – take immediate action such as quarantining or removing
questionable devices from the network. IntroSpect is helpful not
just for security purposes, but also to resolve non-security
related problems such as applications that are being dropped at a
particular firewall or server, or conversations that are being
dropped by a specific workstation.”
Smith noted that St. Dominic’s uses a secure messaging app
called Cureatr for communications between nurses, doctors and other
hospital staff and with IntroSpect, they can easily view and
quantify usage of the application including number of users and
most popular times of day for usage, allowing the IT team to adjust
their downtime and maintenance around these parameters and minimize
interruptions.
“More importantly, IntroSpect has improved our ability to view,
respond and resolve security events, and has reduced response times
from days down to minutes,” Smith said. “We’ve experienced an order
of magnitude improvement. Where previously, half a dozen people
might spend a day working on a security event, we can now make a
determination in less than five minutes that makes our organization
safer.”
As St. Dominic’s looks ahead, the IT team foresees a continued
increase in IoT devices and new applications on the network. To
address these continuing challenges, the provider plans to evaluate
ClearPass Device Insight which uses machine learning and
crowdsourcing to automate discovery and fingerprinting of all
connected devices on any wired or wireless network, User Experience
Insight, to deliver mobile user application assurance and
troubleshooting, and Aruba’s Dynamic Segmentation, which will unify
policy enforcement across the wired and wireless network, keeping
traffic secure and separate.
Said Farrar, “We have a small IT team and can’t afford to spend
our cycles on tasks like trying to script security behavior.
Aruba’s combination of wireless, wired, management and security
solutions supports our long-term goal of a cohesive, integrated
network that meets our IT team’s – and our hospital’s – needs, and
ultimately, allows our staff to deliver the best patient care
possible.”
About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is a leading
provider of secure, intelligent networks that enable customers to
thrive and deliver amazing digital experiences in the mobile, IoT
and cloud era. We are changing the rules of networking to make it
simple for IT and organizations to bridge the physical and digital
worlds at the Edge.
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