Building a Resilient Cyber Defense for Modern Healthcare

Healthcare organizations face a dual mandate: protect sensitive patient data at massive scale while keeping operations running without interruption. This healthcare services and technology enterprise, with over 300,000 employees, partnered with Dataminr for Cyber Defense to replace an underpowered, fragmented intelligence program with infrastructure capable of meeting that mandate.

The Challenge

The organization’s threat intelligence operations were stretched beyond their design limits. An open-source solution managed by a single analyst had become the unlikely backbone of an enterprise-scale security program — and the gaps were showing.

Integrating with operational tools like SIEM, SOAR, and EDR was difficult and inconsistent, leaving critical workflows disconnected. Context around threats was limited, data was fragmented across disparate tools, and manual processes consumed time that analysts could not afford to lose. As threat volume and business complexity increased, the program simply could not scale. The organization needed a platform built for the complexity of modern healthcare — not a workaround stretched past its limits.

The Solution

The organization adopted the Dataminr Agentic Threat Intelligence Platform to modernize and centralize its threat intelligence program from the ground up. The platform unified and enriched threat data across the enterprise, replacing fragmented data sources with a single authoritative operational environment. Automated workflows reduced manual overhead, while seamless integrations with SIEM, SOAR, and EDR tools restored coherence to the security stack. Capabilities including ATT&CK Visualizer, Threat Graph, and developer-friendly APIs enabled the team to produce high-fidelity intelligence and distribute it effectively across SOC, incident response, and threat hunting functions — giving every team the context it needed to act with confidence.

The Outcome

The transformation was both operational and cultural. The organization achieved a 50–75% reduction in false positive rates and a significant reduction in mean time to respond (MTTR) for standard incidents — gains that directly strengthened the organization’s resilience against threats targeting the healthcare sector. The platform’s scalability enabled effective management of millions of indicators of compromise (IOCs), while automation reduced analyst workloads and sharpened focus on high-priority work.

In addition, unified reporting and centralized data sources improved cross-team alignment, enabling clearer communication across SOC, incident response, and threat hunting. Integrations with SIEM, EDR, and SOAR amplified the value of the entire security stack — and positioned the organization to operate with an intelligence-driven, proactive approach to cyber defense at scale.