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Protecting patient data across clinics, missions, and the cloud.

Like most charities in its field, Operation Smile supports both clinics and missions. It manages data on premise at physical locations and in Azure in countries where it has no permanent site, which makes securing patient data a genuinely hard problem.

A non-profit's security pain points.

Operation Smile brings anonymized data from every location and from the cloud into a central database in Azure, so it can make smarter decisions about where to run missions and how to deliver care. That makes the data valuable, and it makes it a target.

The team needed a way to secure patient data across a network of on-premise and Azure databases spread around the world, without the budget or headcount of a large enterprise.

How ThreatSTOP solved it.

Operation Smile first deployed ThreatSTOP's IP Defense at its headquarters, to block inbound attacks and to stop outbound communication with attacker infrastructure.

To secure electronic medical records in Azure, the team uses ThreatSTOP's DNS Defense, which protects cloud workloads by blocking malicious DNS resolution before a connection is made.

Medical data is a highly valuable target for hackers. In the past 12 months a number of charities and non-profits have been targeted by hackers. Terrorists have also tried to hack medical data and hold it for ransom. We are trying to stay ahead of that.

Nikola Nicolic, Contracts and Services Manager, Operation Smile

Enterprise-grade protection on a non-profit budget.

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