Case study: Milton Keynes General NHS Trust
The hospital trust that provides acute and primary care in Milton Keynes is a long-term Sophos user, and takes pride in ensuring its computers are protected from all forms of malware and unwanted applications. Adware was having a significant impact on the productivity of users and IT staff, so the trust took the opportunity to upgrade its protection to the latest version of Sophos Anti-Virus (a component of Endpoint Security and Control). The problem has been eliminated almost overnight.
“Sophos Anti-Virus is one of the best IT investments the hospital has made. It gets better and better and the upgrade to version 6 was one of the smoothest rollouts we've had.”
Nick Southern, Systems Engineer, Milton Keynes General NHS Trust
Fact file
| Sector | Healthcare |
|---|---|
| Location | UK |
| Environment | 3000 Windows desktops and 45 servers |
| Solution | Sophos Anti-Virus (a component of Endpoint Security and Control) |
Business challenge
- Increasing problems with adware and other potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) were interrupting internet access and required manual intervention by IT staff, significantly affecting their productivity.
- The use of commercial tools for removing adware and other PUAs was not entirely successful.
Technology solution
- The hospital upgraded to Sophos Anti-Virus version 6 with the minimum of disruption to its network.
- Sophos Anti-Virus has been set to block all PUAs, and the ActivePolicies™ feature ensures that retrieval of specified categories of patient-critical records is not delayed by the scanning process.
Business results
- Manual intervention to solve adware probems at individual desktops has been eliminated, freeing up time for IT staff.
- Sophos Anti-Virus protection has been extended to include the local Primary Care Trust, doubling the number of users protected to more than 3000.
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