Apria Healthcare Protects Patient Data in the Cloud and on the Web

“As an industry with strict privacy and security regulations, we needed to implement increased cybersecurity measures to mitigate risk in the cloud. A robust Data Loss Prevention (DLP) strategy was a critical part of our security program.”

The cloud may be changing how Apria delivers healthcare, but the sensitivity of health information hasn’t changed. HIPAA requires healthcare organizations to safeguard the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of protected health information (PHI). Apria needed a modern data protection solution in place to identify PHI, eliminate access by unauthorized individuals, and to identify and control the flow of PHI in and out of cloud applications.

Sto. Tomas adds: “With Netskope, Apria has implemented cloud and web DLP policy enforcement without placing a burden on personnel, while also providing employees and patients the assurance that their personal information is in safe hands.”

Looking forward, Apria will continue to use Netskope to address cloud and web risk, enforce security policies, and to comply with regulation.

Identity-as-a-service plays a key role in cloud security. Sto. Tomas explains, “At Apria we use Okta to manage identities. Once users sign in through Okta for cloud service access, Netskope governs the usage of the services.”

Apria uses Netskope to enable advanced security of its web environment in addition to visibility and control for its SaaS applications. “With Netskope, we have an integrated proxy for cloud and web along with a unified policy engine to simplify our security program and streamline administration and operations” says Sto. Tomas. Using Netskope in this way saves Apria time by avoiding redundant DLP and threat protection configuration and the need to switch between tools. Unlike its legacy web proxy that overwhelmed security analysts with high volumes of log data, Netskope synthesizes web and cloud activity to what security teams need to focus on most, significantly cutting costs.

“I need to continue to be an enabler for the business” Sto. Tomas explains, “Netskope makes our cloud strategy possible from a security, performance, and privacy perspective.”