Secureenvironment
at AZ Sint-Jan

AZ Sint-Jan     

Healthcare• Offices in Bruges and Oostende• Kaspersky Endpoint Security forBusiness, Security for Mail Serverand Security for Virtualization

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AZ Sint-Jan offers innovative,
advanced healthcare services toa wide catchment area. Patient careis spread across three locations andis supported by leading-edge 24/7
medical technology systems.
AZ Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende AV is a public hospital which provides basic,
advanced and tertiary care in a number of medical fields. Established in1150, it’s now a modern, high-tech hospital with around 3,500 employees and1,238 beds. It conducted 278,000 consultations in 2014 and carried out nearly
30,000 operations.

Challenge“Our Kaspersky Lab
solution automaticallymonitors the general
health of our ICT
environment and thatlevel of automation
ensures effective
protection for all
our systems. In
addition, efficientreporting delivers
timely identificationof possible risks andongoing optimizationof security.”
Cédric Provoost,
IT System Manager,
AZ Sint-Jan

Digitization of patient care places high demands on a hospital’s ICT
environment. Employees must have rapid access to the right data and at thesame time, security of both the information and the network must be assured.
Databases of radiographic images and electronic patient files are a good
example and as Cédric Provoost, ICT system manager at AZ Sint-Jan, points
out: “These applications form the heart of the hospital and have to be kept
running 24/7.”
When the hospital merged with Ostend’s Henri Serruys Hospital in 2009, it wastime to consolidate both the ICT infrastructure and its security.
“The Bruges campus had been using Kaspersky Lab security solutions and we
decided to adopt it in Ostend as well,” explains Provoost.
Around 2,000 PCs and laptops are in use at AZ Sint-Jan, where 200 servers
manage the digital information flow. “We make very good use of Kaspersky
Lab’s management platform,” says Provoost. “It works excellently. Kaspersky
Security Centre enables us to quickly locate a problem and immediately
address it.
“We started to use virtual desktops in 2010 so all employees, and in particular
doctors, could work from both hospitals or from remote locations while
retaining the same ICT environment. This also increases ease of use while
simplifying control and security.”
Improvements continued at the end of 2014 with further standardization of theinfrastructure.
“The aim was to create a uniform environment which enables us to delegatetasks, for example, to first- and second-line ICT employees, without the systemmanager losing overall control or security risks arising,” explains Provoost.

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Kaspersky Lab Solution
SecureData protected in both virtual andphysical environment

Control
Security standardized across thewhole ICT environment

An inventory of the current Kaspersky Lab landscape was carried out and it wasdecided that they needed to increase clarity, control and optimum security by
migrating to the latest versions of security software.

Kaspersky Lab ensures overall health of ICT
environment
Following a successful upgrade of all physical clients, the virtual machines wereupgraded during the first half of 2015. The Kaspersky Lab solution features
Kaspersky Security for Virtualization, and KSV Light Agent is installed on each
virtual machine. Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business Select protects
physical workstations.
“Thanks to excellent assistance from our local Kaspersky Lab support team, thesecurity systems meet all our requirements,” concludes Provoost. “The Kaspersky
Lab solution automatically monitors the general health of our ICT environment
and that level of automation ensures effective protection for all systems. In
addition, efficient reporting delivers timely identification of possible risks andongoing optimisation of security.”33 500employees

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