Synlab

challenge

In 2010, an independent review of NHS pathology recommended to lower costs by developing a new model where high-volume, routine pathology work could be outsourced to other locations for analysis.

As a result, Synlab’s network of labs grew to span the UK. However, this growth increased the risk of cyber attacks.

While infrastructure across its sites vary, transmitting sensitive patient data to clinicians needs to be reliable, immediate and above all secure.

Synlab needed a cyber protection solution that was effective against zero-day threats and easily scalable as the business expanded.

SOLUTION

Building on an established enterprise partnership for five years, Tectrade identified the need to target the risk presented by zero-day threats.

Traditionally, threat prevention has been based on signatures – this only makes sense if all attacks have been seen before. However, today malware mutates rapidly making signature-based tools obsolete.

Tectrade’s Security Operations Center (SOC) deployed AI-driven threat protection to neutralize advanced threats and continuously protect the endpoints without disrupting users.

Now our SOC experts can react immediately to alerts and work with Synlab to resolve cyber security-related incidents.

outcomes

Tectrade already provided Synlab’s computing infrastructure and is demonstrating benefits in supporting new ways of working, increasing quality, and improving productivity.

The scalable AI-threat solution can expand as threat escalates or as Synlab’s network expands. For example, if the volume of pathology work increases, our SOC can simply add more resources.

Synlab has significantly reduced its exposure to morphing risk with real-time ability to identify tell-tale pattern before they become attacks.