Case Study

VolitionRx Underscores the Critical Role ofCybersecurity in the Fight Against Cancer
VolitionRxIndustry:
Healthcare
Location:
United Kingdom
Product:
CylancePROTECT®
Deployment:
115 endpoints
Website:www.volition.com
Modern cancer diagnoses often involve expensive, unpleasant, and invasive
testing. VolitionRx Limited was founded with a single goal in mind – helping toensure that this is no longer the case. By diagnosing a range of cancers quickly,
accurately, and inexpensively, the organization hopes to reduce strain on
overburdened healthcare systems while also prioritizing the comfort and safetyof cancer patients.
One of the company’s early innovations was a diagnostic test capable ofdetermining a diagnosis by analyzing a small blood sample.
“As a multinational life sciences company, VolitionRx works very hard tohelp save lives and improve the quality of life of people with cancer,” explains
Louise Batchelor, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at VolitionRx.
“For us, it’s about more than efficiency. Caught early, cancer is actually a highly
treatable disease.”

Author’s Note: The
CylancePROTECT solution
was formerly known asBlackBerry Protect.

With operations teams in Belgium, London, Singapore, and the United States,
VolitionRx is a global organization. Each group uses its own equipment and issubject to its regulatory environment. VolitionRx must be capable of not only
protecting its data and intellectual property as they are shared worldwide, but also
demonstrating that it can keep patient data safe, secure, and private.

Safeguarding Patients Across The Globe“Security is absolutely paramount for us,” says Batchelor. “Our intellectual property
is important, but so is the trust of our shareholders and the information of ourpatients. We simply cannot afford to breach that trust, nor can we ignore the various
regulatory frameworks to which we are subject.”With this in mind, Daniel Halter, Group IT Manager at VolitionRx, set out with hiscolleagues in search of a new cybersecurity solution. The ideal product needed
to be reliable, efficient, and easily manageable for VolitionRx’s modestly-sized
IT department. More importantly, it needed to be readily deployable acrossVolitionRx’s global infrastructure.
“Most traditional antivirus vendors were offering the same solution they always had,
only slightly jazzier,” Halter recalls. “Their models, though new, were the same thingthat had been around for a while. It was also difficult to determine which vendors
were selling truth and which were selling dreams.”
Seeking a better alternative, VolitionRx reached out to international cybersecurity
expert Khipu Networks for their recommendations. After working closely with
Halter and his team to understand their requirements, Khipu suggested
CylancePROTECT®. An artificial-intelligence-based endpoint security solution,BlackBerry Protect safeguards against both simple and sophisticatedthreats through a lightweight client and with minimal human intervention.
Alongside BlackBerry U.K. Distributor Ignition Technology, VolitionRx spunup a proof of concept for CylancePROTECT. Put to the test, it excelled against
the competition, identifying threats that VolitionRx’s existing solution
overlooked. What’s more, they were able to run CylancePROTECT on top ofother antivirus software without causing any performance issues.

“One of the key reasons
Khipu chose[CylancePROTECT] wasbecause the platform
not only detects andprevents vulnerabilities,
it also predicts andeliminates them. This isextremely important inany environment. If you
have that level ofcontrol and visibility
and automation, you’rewell-equipped toprotect yourself against
an ever-changing
threat landscape.”– Matt Ashman,
Chief Commercial Operator,
Khipu Networks“Most of the time, you experience performance degradation when you sit one
antivirus solution atop another,” says Halter. “This wasn’t the case with
CylancePROTECT. We quickly realized the product’s potential, and within half aday, we had a working solution deployed across multiple devices.”“The sales process was also smooth and engaging,” Halter continues.
“From attending a webinar through to our proof of concept, Ignition
Technology was extremely helpful and accommodating. Khipu Networks
demonstrated a similar level of engagement, helping us to understand thesolution better and providing excellent after-sale care.”BlackBerry

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Standing Prepared for a New Threat Landscape“The techniques being used by cybercriminals are becoming increasinglysophisticated,” says Halter. “Although we can educate staff on how to detect andward off potential threats, we understood that alone wasn’t enough. We needed realtime protection that provided worldwide coverage and visibility of our infrastructure.”
CylancePROTECT proved to be exactly what VolitionRx sought – agile, cooperative,centralized, and efficient. Its low CPU consumption proved especially useful for
older hardware, and its AI-based protection means Halter and his team nolonger need to update virus definition files constantly. This ultimately allows
VolitionRx to focus on what it does best: pioneering new technology in theongoing fight against cancer.
“[CylancePROTECT] has enabled us to really have an enhanced security
posture and ensure our devices are protected in real-time against the evergrowing risk of ransomware and zero-day attacks,” Halter concludes. As ourorganization grows, it also allows us to scale out and deploy as part of our IT
strategy. Our experience with BlackBerry Protect is a fantastic one – it really
does work.”
For more information, Cylance Endpoint Security from BlackBerry“Thanks to[CylancePROTECT], weare now more efficientin terms of how weoperate. We spend lesstime firefighting andoperationally focusing
on updating definition
files. BlackBerry Protect
also has a lower impact
on devices – it’s not as
CPU hungry as otherantivirus software.”– Daniel Halter,
Group IT Manager, VolitionRx

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