Baptist Health, one of the region’s largest healthcare systems, sought stronger protection against threats that hide at the physical layer and impersonate legitimate devices. By adopting the Sepio Platform, the organization gained hardware‑level visibility across clinical and IT environments, uncovering unmanaged, hidden, and spoofed devices that traditional tools miss.
The Challenge: Hardware‑Level Blind Spots in Healthcare Networks
Healthcare delivery organizations operate vast fleets of medical devices, IoT, and conventional IT assets. That scale introduces blind spots, especially at Layer 1 (the physical layer), where malicious tools can masquerade as benign peripherals and slip past traditional security controls. Identifying these assets with confidence, and in real time, is essential to protecting patient care and sensitive data.
The Sepio Platform: Hardware Network Security
The Sepio Platform brings hardware fingerprinting and physical‑layer analytics to Network Security, enabling security teams to see every device, managed, unmanaged, or hidden, and to detect spoofing and impersonation attempts that would otherwise remain invisible. This hardware‑level perspective strengthens Zero Trust programs, Insider Threat defenses, and BYOD/IoT security initiatives.
What this means for security teams:
- Comprehensive device discovery across IT, OT, IoT, and clinical environments. including hidden or unmanaged assets.
- Hardware‑level verification that helps validate trust decisions before devices are granted access.
- Actionable visibility that supports asset inventory accuracy and closes coverage gaps created by traditional tools.
Implementation Insights from Baptist Health
Baptist Health operates a complex, distributed environment with countless endpoints. As CISO Michael Erickson explains, the difficulty isn’t just scale, it’s the nature of modern threats, which exploit physical‑layer blind spots and impersonate legitimate devices to evade detection. By introducing Sepio’s hardware‑aware visibility into their ecosystem, the team addressed a foundational gap: knowing with certainty which devices are present and whether they should be trusted.
Results: Better Visibility, Better Decisions
With Sepio, Baptist Health reports improvements that map directly to Zero Trust outcomes and day‑to‑day operational needs: bringing a new source of information into asset inventories, improving lifecycle planning, and supporting existing risk management processes, without heavy network changes or specialized hardware expertise.
Observed benefits include:
- Additional security layer for medical devices and clinical networks, complementing existing controls.
- Enhanced visibility for hybrid/WFH scenarios and distributed sites.
Integration with the existing security stack, improving the value of current tools rather than replacing them.
