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Lightbeam Health Solutions Leverages Check Point for Hybrid Cloud Security

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Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud
Applicable Industries	Glass National Security & Defense
Use Cases	Inventory Management Tamper Detection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Cybersecurity Services
Challenge	Lightbeam Health Solutions, a provider of a data analytics platform for healthcare organizations, faced the challenge of protecting sensitive customer data amidst rapid company growth and the transition from brick-and-mortar data centers to a hybrid cloud environment. The company needed to ensure consistent security for both its data center and cloud infrastructure and services. The continual changes in the healthcare industry, new technologies, and company growth were outpacing the data centers' abilities to keep up, leading Lightbeam to extend its infrastructure to the cloud. The challenge was to ensure comprehensive protection for cloud assets without sacrificing agility or scale, and to simplify security management across premises and cloud infrastructure. Read More
About Customer	Lightbeam Health Solutions is a provider of a data analytics platform that unifies claims and clinical data to help healthcare organizations provide superior patient care with lower costs. The company's technology provides Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), payers, large provider groups, health systems, and other healthcare organizations with actionable information that helps them better manage patient care while reducing costs. The company aggregates and analyzes high volumes of clinical and claims data using advanced modeling, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and reporting technologies. Customers access their information through their accounts in the customer portal. Read More
Solution	To address these challenges, Lightbeam adopted Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Check Point Harmony Email & Office, along with Check Point R80 Security Management. This architecture provided complete threat prevention, sealing any security gaps and sharing immediate threat intelligence automatically across both environments. Check Point CloudGuard for Microsoft Azure protected workloads, data, and assets with secure connectivity between the Azure cloud and on-premises environments. CloudGuard IaaS brought the same firewall, IPS, data loss prevention, zero-day protection, and other threat prevention capabilities to the cloud that Check Point firewalls delivered to Lightbeam's physical data centers and offices. Lightbeam also leveraged Check Point CloudGuard SaaS to provide zero-day threat protection, and data protection to its Microsoft Office 365 environment, preventing data loss and scanning email messages and attachments for malicious content. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud

Applicable Industries

Glass

National Security & Defense

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Tamper Detection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Cybersecurity Services

Challenge

Lightbeam Health Solutions, a provider of a data analytics platform for healthcare organizations, faced the challenge of protecting sensitive customer data amidst rapid company growth and the transition from brick-and-mortar data centers to a hybrid cloud environment. The company needed to ensure consistent security for both its data center and cloud infrastructure and services. The continual changes in the healthcare industry, new technologies, and company growth were outpacing the data centers' abilities to keep up, leading Lightbeam to extend its infrastructure to the cloud. The challenge was to ensure comprehensive protection for cloud assets without sacrificing agility or scale, and to simplify security management across premises and cloud infrastructure.

About Customer

Lightbeam Health Solutions is a provider of a data analytics platform that unifies claims and clinical data to help healthcare organizations provide superior patient care with lower costs. The company's technology provides Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), payers, large provider groups, health systems, and other healthcare organizations with actionable information that helps them better manage patient care while reducing costs. The company aggregates and analyzes high volumes of clinical and claims data using advanced modeling, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and reporting technologies. Customers access their information through their accounts in the customer portal.

Solution

To address these challenges, Lightbeam adopted Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Check Point Harmony Email & Office, along with Check Point R80 Security Management. This architecture provided complete threat prevention, sealing any security gaps and sharing immediate threat intelligence automatically across both environments. Check Point CloudGuard for Microsoft Azure protected workloads, data, and assets with secure connectivity between the Azure cloud and on-premises environments. CloudGuard IaaS brought the same firewall, IPS, data loss prevention, zero-day protection, and other threat prevention capabilities to the cloud that Check Point firewalls delivered to Lightbeam's physical data centers and offices. Lightbeam also leveraged Check Point CloudGuard SaaS to provide zero-day threat protection, and data protection to its Microsoft Office 365 environment, preventing data loss and scanning email messages and attachments for malicious content.

Impact #1	The implementation of Check Point's solutions has enabled Lightbeam to provide differentiated secure services. They can easily and securely spin up and tear down virtual servers to test new product features without having to continuously reconfigure their security infrastructure. This capability enables Lightbeam to automatically scale security protection with changes in its application for faster time-to-market. Check Point CloudGuard SaaS has been integral in preventing data leaks and stopping incoming email threats. It quarantines malicious links and attachments and notifies users that their email was quarantined. The Lightbeam team manages all of its security centrally in a single pane-of-glass through Check Point R80 Unified Security Management. CloudGuard, data center appliances, logs, cloud-based security, and policies are all visible and manageable in one place. Despite the rapid changes in the industry and technology, Lightbeam is confident that Check Point stands beside them to keep pace.

Impact #1

The implementation of Check Point's solutions has enabled Lightbeam to provide differentiated secure services. They can easily and securely spin up and tear down virtual servers to test new product features without having to continuously reconfigure their security infrastructure. This capability enables Lightbeam to automatically scale security protection with changes in its application for faster time-to-market. Check Point CloudGuard SaaS has been integral in preventing data leaks and stopping incoming email threats. It quarantines malicious links and attachments and notifies users that their email was quarantined. The Lightbeam team manages all of its security centrally in a single pane-of-glass through Check Point R80 Unified Security Management. CloudGuard, data center appliances, logs, cloud-based security, and policies are all visible and manageable in one place. Despite the rapid changes in the industry and technology, Lightbeam is confident that Check Point stands beside them to keep pace.

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Lightbeam Health Solutions Leverages Check Point for Hybrid Cloud Security

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