Case Study: DeKalb Medical Center Secures Patient Data With Proofpoint

As a medical center, DeKalb Medical Center is very sensitive about patient privacy. Recently, the organization conducted an audit of its data security and determined that outbound email was a high-risk area for protected health information (PHI) to leave the enterprise.

As a first step, the medical center needed to secure its outbound email stream to ensure that PHI was not being sent out unencrypted. In addition, many of DeKalb Medical Center's nearly 4,000 employees complained about the high volume of spam that they received daily. As a result, DeKalb Medical Center looked for a messaging security solution that would secure both its inbound and outbound email streams.

"We narrowed our selection down to three vendors and evaluated them based on their ease of use and ability to provide inbound and outbound email protection," said Sharon Finney, information security administrator of DeKalb Medical Center. "Proofpoint had the strongest capabilities for detecting PHI, came with fully managed dictionaries of compliance terms built-in and was extremely easy to use. Not only that, but it also eliminated spam with nearperfect accuracy."