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Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Case Study

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Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Cybersecurity
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT) was spending a large majority of its time completing security-related tasks manually. It also required flexible protection against all risks and malicious software. These are classic security issues for both private and public companies, and these issues will always need to be approached by management in the most innovative way. For INT, threat protection is an essential aspect of that challenge. Bellazzi mentioned “browsing on the move” as his security platform requirement. At its core, this is protecting a mobile workforce on all endpoints. Mobile employees are going to leave the on-premises network at some point. Knowing that, it is crucial for any company to keep its same protocols unified across all endpoints, on-premises or remote. Read More
About Customer	Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT) is the center for international excellence in research, treatment and prevention of oncological diseases. Established in 1928, INT engages in biomedical research, the training and qualification of human resources, innovation in organization, and the management of health services. The institute is the largest center for pediatric oncology in Italy and the second largest in Europe. It has a workforce of 1,700 users who need to be protected from security threats, especially when browsing on the move. The institute has been relying on Forcepoint security solutions since 2010. Read More
Solution	The Forcepoint solution, because of its great capacity for categorization of content, sites and domains, was the ideal platform for solving all problems in real-time and in a single console. After the selection process between vendors and solutions, the choice for INT was to take advantage of the Forcepoint’s Web Security Gateway [TRITON AP-Web]. This solution was chosen for its ability to protect a mobile workforce on all endpoints, ensuring that the same protocols are unified across all endpoints, whether on-premises or remote. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT) was spending a large majority of its time completing security-related tasks manually. It also required flexible protection against all risks and malicious software. These are classic security issues for both private and public companies, and these issues will always need to be approached by management in the most innovative way. For INT, threat protection is an essential aspect of that challenge. Bellazzi mentioned “browsing on the move” as his security platform requirement. At its core, this is protecting a mobile workforce on all endpoints. Mobile employees are going to leave the on-premises network at some point. Knowing that, it is crucial for any company to keep its same protocols unified across all endpoints, on-premises or remote.

About Customer

Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT) is the center for international excellence in research, treatment and prevention of oncological diseases. Established in 1928, INT engages in biomedical research, the training and qualification of human resources, innovation in organization, and the management of health services. The institute is the largest center for pediatric oncology in Italy and the second largest in Europe. It has a workforce of 1,700 users who need to be protected from security threats, especially when browsing on the move. The institute has been relying on Forcepoint security solutions since 2010.

Solution

The Forcepoint solution, because of its great capacity for categorization of content, sites and domains, was the ideal platform for solving all problems in real-time and in a single console. After the selection process between vendors and solutions, the choice for INT was to take advantage of the Forcepoint’s Web Security Gateway [TRITON AP-Web]. This solution was chosen for its ability to protect a mobile workforce on all endpoints, ensuring that the same protocols are unified across all endpoints, whether on-premises or remote.

Impact #1	Employees struggled to perceive an immediate payback of the work done in the background from the solution, but instantly recognized the greater fluidity of navigating online. In this sense, the management of bandwidth with the new solution is completely rationalized.
Impact #2	INT researchers, connected to a series of external sites, as well as all other employees, are taking full advantage of lower latency, increased browsing speed and safe, protected data download.
Impact #3	The solution has also helped reduce the number of help desk calls related to the performance online, freeing staff from performing a series of repetitive tasks.

Impact #1

Employees struggled to perceive an immediate payback of the work done in the background from the solution, but instantly recognized the greater fluidity of navigating online. In this sense, the management of bandwidth with the new solution is completely rationalized.

Impact #2

INT researchers, connected to a series of external sites, as well as all other employees, are taking full advantage of lower latency, increased browsing speed and safe, protected data download.

Impact #3

The solution has also helped reduce the number of help desk calls related to the performance online, freeing staff from performing a series of repetitive tasks.

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Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Case Study

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