Nuffield Health signs-up for Managed XDR

Nuffield Health is using the Trend Micro Vision One  platform to accelerate time to threat detection and response and maximise in-house IT productivity.

Founded in 1957, Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest healthcare charity with extensive IT infrastructure distributed across 300 sites. These include 32 hospitals, 112 fitness & wellbeing centres, seven clinics and multiple corporate locations.

Like those in many healthcare organisations (HCOs) its IT team must manage a complex blend of legacy systems, and newer digital platforms which the pandemic has accelerated the development of.

“Healthcare organisations like Nuffield Health are doing tireless work in the fight against COVID-19, but IT teams have been on the back foot against surging threats,” said Trend Micro Technical Director Bharat Mistry. “This is where Trend Micro Vision One offers tremendous value, in providing faster, earlier threat detection, investigation and remediation from a single platform. With Managed XDR, Trend Micro experts do all the heavy lifting to let our customers focus on the things that matter.”

Healthcare organisations are increasingly a top target for sophisticated ransomware gangs that threaten to take life-saving services offline, while patient data can command a relatively high price on the cybercrime underground.

Trend Micro Vision One offers HCOs and customers across all verticals a faster, more effective way to find and respond to stealthy threats and reduce cyber risk. It collects and automatically correlates data across email, endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and networks to speed up detections and investigations.

According to analyst firm ESG, organisations with an XDR approach are 2.2 times more likely to detect a data breach or successful attack in a few days or less, versus weeks or months for those without. They are also 2.6 times less likely to report their team is overwhelmed.

“We know Trend Micro has it covered and if anything critical comes in we receive alerts,” explained Nuffield Health Head of Enabling IT Ed Moss. “This has definitely allowed us to run a leaner operations team, so we can focus our time more effectively while the SaaS deployment model is the right fit for our increasingly cloud-first outlook.”