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Juniper Networks and Sana Security Deliver Solution for Cambridge Health Alliance
Sana Security Inc., provider of intrusion prevention software (IPS), announced it has teamed with Juniper Networks, Inc. to deliver an IT security solution for Cambridge Health Alliance (the Alliance), a Massachusetts-based health care system that serves Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston's Metro-North region. The Alliance's layered Sana Security-Juniper Networks solution provides network, application and host protection from known and unknown Internet threats to secure patient information, maintain regulatory compliance and empower its affiliated hospitals and physicians with the information, applications and services necessary for world-class provision of care.
The Sana Security and Juniper Networks solution allows the Alliance to enforce access control and host-based security across its network. The deployment combines Sana Security's intrusion prevention security software Primary Response, with Juniper Networks NetScreen integrated firewall and virtual private network (VPN) devices as well as its intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) systems. As a result, the Alliance has a highly effective end-to-end/defense-in-depth security posture.
"After trying other products that were inadequate due to a reliance on signatures or rules, or were simply too cumbersome to manage, we are pleased that Sana Security and Juniper Networks are able to provide a simple yet comprehensive defense-in-depth solution that fit our heterogeneous IT infrastructure," said Dan Cameron, exchange and internet/intranet engineer, at the Alliance. "As a primary teaching site for Harvard Medical School, we need to maintain high quality standards, both clinically and in our infrastructure. This solution gives us iron-clad protection at both the network and application levels, meets strict HIPAA regulations, and saves time and money that used to be spent on frantically patching software holes and chasing after falsely identified attacks."
The Alliance has deployed Sana Security's Primary Response intrusion prevention software on servers that host applications for The Cambridge Hospital, Somerville Hospital, Whidden Memorial Hospital in Everett, the Cambridge Public Health Department, and over 20 primary care sites.
The world's only security software approach based upon the principles of the human immune system, Primary Response provides customers with out-of-the-box code injection suppression, proactive vulnerability exploit detection and real-time prevention from zero-day attacks, worms and hackers and an immediate return on investment by forgoing frequent security patch fire drills. As a result, Cambridge Health Alliance will be able to dramatically improve the accessibility of critical resources for its affiliates.
To provide security and access control at the network perimeter as well as at multiple levels inside the enterprise network, the Alliance also has deployed Juniper Networks IDP and firewall solutions to operate inline to detect and drop malicious traffic in real-time before it reaches its victim.
"The highly distributed network operated by the Alliance is a dynamic, adaptive environment requiring strong protection from a myriad of network- and application-level threats," said David Flynn, vice president of security products, Juniper Networks. "We are pleased to see that the Alliance has realized the value that a Juniper Networks and Sana solution can provide to secure critical resources and reduce operational overhead."
"Like many other forward-thinking companies, the Alliance is moving towards IT security solutions that deliver defense in depth throughout the enterprise by assembling an interoperable combination of the best solutions available on the market to proactively secure applications and eliminate the burden and high costs of the proverbial 'race to patch,'" said John Zicker, chairman and CEO, Sana Security, Inc. "Primary Response protects both custom and off-the-shelf applications that are usually located at the core of enterprise networks, but are no less vulnerable to worms and hackers." 11.08.2004, Sana Security Inc.
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