Our primary use case is in our radiology department. We see a lot of our patients daily. What would happen was, a traditional antivirus would scan each Radiologist's files. The files can be massive, 4 or 5-plus gigs, because they are radiation imaging files. The scans would slow down the process, as the radiologists need to see a bunch of images in a specified amount of time. A big complaint was that the AV was really slowing things down, it was ruining productivity.
With the Bromium, everything comes up in a nice, isolated window, which negates the need to wait for that AV scan to conclude, so the radiologists can be very productive; see many patients in a specified amount of time. we know we are safe with Bromium because once they close out that window, Any threats, if that particular image was compromised, would just disappear.
Here at Moffitt, patients are our top priority. They are everything to us. We want the patient experience to be wonderful, from registering, to the care that they receive here, to the experts that we hire and recruit to make sure they have top-notch, quality care. The way Bromium adds to that is that when you have cancer you have to do some scans, no matter where you go. These imaging scans are vital to the care of patients. These scans require radiologists and clinicians to read them efficiently and effectively. The workload we have, to see patients, is tremendous. Anything that slows down the process of taking care of our patients - to wait for an image to come up, to redo that image, to close it down - really inhibits the appropriate patient care we're trying to give. Bromium allows us to safely view images. It allows us to quickly and safely surf our network so that we can take proper care of our patients efficiently, effectively, and expeditiously.
I've heard from the doctors that, now that we have installed Bromium on the systems, on the radiology machines, they're able to spend more time with the actual patient, and the patients appreciate that extra time with their doctor to talk about what's happening to them, to map out a treatment plan. That has really been well received in the organization and by our patients.
Our overall security posture has improved as a result of adding this solution to our security stack. In the past, a request might be made like, "Hey, your AV is having some effect on our systems here. We need to exclude this file path because every time your AV scans this file path it makes the system stall or it makes the system freeze. We just can't run this program on the server that's needed for patient care." Or, "We cannot view what we need to view fast enough to be effective." So we would exclude that particular path. The AV would no longer scan a particular area of a computer, whether it's a file path or a file itself, and that would leave us vulnerable. The threat actors out there could leverage that to put malware or that like in that file path. With Bromium, there's no need to exclude anything, any path, any file, because everything is open in a micro VM. We are now more secure because we don't have to exclude anything from being scanned for malicious activity.
After implementing Bromium, we were able to remove endpoint protection defenses. All of the radiology machines, which is quite a few, do not have an AV on them. We have Bromium instead. We were able to remove one of the major, top-five antivirus solutions.
