Mount Desert Island Hospital
Network Reliability Enhances Patient Health: How Fortinet Secures a Critical Access Hospital
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Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor, Maine, serves about 150 islands off that state’s coast with essential medical care. As the only acute-care provider on Mount Desert Island, the hospital must ensure its systems run 24x7. Any disruption caused by a cyberattack could quickly become a matter of life or death for the hospital’s patients.
With its firewalls ready for replacing, Mount Desert Island Hospital adopted a mesh security platform by migrating onto the Fortinet Security Fabric. The hospital now connects its facilities using Fortinet Secure SD-WAN and ensures security and resilience through Fortinet secure networking solutions. In addition, the hospital uses “work from anywhere” solutions from Fortinet to authenticate remote users, control access to its network, and bring firewall policies closer to end users. Meanwhile, the hospital’s security operations center benefits from additional insights and process automation to identify and shut down potential threats rapidly. Through the Fortinet Security Fabric, Mount Desert Island Hospital has significantly reduced the time staff spend managing infrastructure, while reducing the likelihood of disruption to its essential work.
“Because the entire Fortinet Security Fabric is under a single pane of glass, we can log in to one place to see everything. If one solution finds a threat, it is a very quick pivot to block it in policy. This is crucial to protecting our systems.”
– Will Houston, Network Security Manager, Mount Desert Island Hospital
Business Impact
Better protection for applications and data, as Fortinet Security Fabric solutions coordinate threat detection and response
Faster updates to security policy, as needed, due to better visibility into security events networkwide
Reduced staff time managing security through centralized security policy management
Smooth transition to FortiVoice results in only five minutes total of phone system downtime
Dramatic improvement in system reliability reduces staff time spent troubleshooting
FortiOS consistency across products streamlines staff training and enables team members to fill in for one another
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