The Challenge: Increasing Performance and Reducing Complexity
“We began moving from a physical desktop infrastructure to a virtual desktop infrastructure,” says Martin Littmann, Chief Technology & Information Security Officer at Kelsey Seybold Clinic. “We used McAfee as our primary platform, but began to see challenges in the virtual desktop environment with performance and conflicts between different pieces of software.”
Founded in 1949 in Houston, Texas, Kelsey Seybold Clinic is a large multispecialty clinic spread across 21 locations and one specialized sleep center. A center for healthcare research, it provides care to more than 500,000 patients in the Greater Houston area, including NASA employees and contractors.
As the nation’s first accredited Accountable Care Organization, Kelsey Seybold coordinates care across multiple specialties and different care settings. It leverages advanced technologies, including electronic medical record and digital imaging and archiving systems, to eliminate the need for duplicate medical testing. The result is reduced costs, which are crucial to enabling sustainable healthcare.
“With McAfee, the console is very overwhelming,” adds Joe Horvath, Enterprise Information Systems Security at Kelsey Seybold Clinic. “There are multiple scan policies, scan times, different exclusion policies, and different groups for computers. It’s all done through manual actions.”
Excelling at Virtual Desktop Security
“A big driver for changing our desktop security,” explains Littmann, “was (1) to move away from a signature-based solution to a next-generation type solution; and (2) move to something that would help increase and improve the performance and reliability of the desktop environment.”
Hearing about SentinelOne from one of his employees, Littman decided to trial several AI-based, endpoint protection solutions.
“Our process for evaluating all of these endpoint solutions,” explains Littman, “was to really bake them off against each other. Almost everybody is pretty effective at hitting file-based malware. SentinelOne excelled in capturing fileless script malware that we threw at it.”
Behavior-based AI Threat Containment
Kelsey Seybold chose SentinelOne’s platform for its next-generation, behavior-based endpoint protection platform (EPP) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities. Replacing traditional signatures and eliminating recurring scans that impact performance, SentinelOne’s single-agent technology uses multiple AI engines to stop attacks before they infect the network.
In the face of rapidly increasing zero-day exploits, signature-based defenses pose a severe risk with signature databases needing to be updated continuously—and on a millisecond basis—for effective detection. As a behavior- or AI-based, autonomous endpoint security solution, SentinelOne’s light-weight agent detects, blocks, and responds to all malicious threats at the point of attack. Providing in memory, run-time protection, the agent analyzes intended actions and monitors suspicious activities in real-time, thwarting attacks before they penetrate and infect the network.
Utilizing Sentinel Vigilance for Multi-layer Defense
In addition to deploying SentinelOne, Kelsey Seybold chose Vigilance—SentinelOne’s 24/7, follow-the-sun Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service—to complement their in-house capabilities.
Staffed by a highly-trained group of cybersecurity analysts, Vigilance empowers security teams by accelerating the speed with which advanced cyber threats can be detected, prioritized, and blocked. As soon as a new threat is detected, Vigilance analysts review the threat, identify ways to mitigate the risk, and provide actionable recommendations.
Investing in Protection, Investing in your Business
With over 3,000 customers and recognized as the fastest-growing company in Silicon Valley, SentinelOne monitors millions of endpoints and billions of events every day. New threats are quickly identified, and advanced techniques developed to minimize risk.
“I was tremendously impressed by the amount of research dollars spent at SentinelOne,” says Littman, “to provide a product that is going to stop every piece of new malware that comes out. I’m looking forward to getting SentinelOne integrated with many of our other security solutions.”
