Temple Health, a Philadelphia-based academic health system, needed an identity threat detection and response (ITDR) system that would help them comply with the myriad healthcare industry regulations for protecting patient health information (PHI).
Temple’s information security team initiated the adoption of Semperis Directory Services Protector (DSP).
“But we also wanted a sound solution for Active Directory forest recovery,” said Sean McIlvried, lead systems engineer at Temple Health.
He works closely with the infosec team to implement the identity roles they request and harden access policies in a collaborative effort. But his team has primary responsibility for the organization’s AD forest recovery strategy.
“The simplicity of ADFR made it a lot easier for the staff to use,” he said. ADFR eliminated the painstaking process of conducting a manual recovery. “It’s a lot more streamlined than what we were used to.”
McIlvried said that the team’s first AD recovery test gave them confidence that they could meet their recovery objectives.
“It took an hour and 10 minutes versus, in most places, a week to three weeks to even months, depending on the size of the environment.”
Streamlined AD forest recovery and security hardening
Implementing DSP and ADFR helped Temple Health:
- Manage identity roles to comply with healthcare security requirements
- Harden access policies and continuously monitor AD for new vulnerabilities
- Simplify AD forest recovery
The simplicity of ADFR made it a lot easier for the staff to use. It’s a lot more streamlined than what we were used to.
Sean McIlvried, Lead Systems Engineer, Temple Health
