Summary With more than 125 vendors accessing Steward Healthcare System’s network, it was extremely difficult to manage and control access. The healthcare organization needed a better way to centrally manage and take control of vendor access. Challenges Steward was struggling to handle a multitude of vendor IP addresses and found it arduous to control network access. Plus, they had no way to see or prove exactly what vendors had done while on their network. Lack of visibility into vendor actions and an uncontrolled IT environment opened them up to security vulnerabilities. Before turning to SecureLink, Steward was using SSL VPN, with many ad-hoc solutions that weren’t centrally located or managed. With so many vendors – spanning clinical to HVAC – the healthcare organization

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