A healthcare sharing organization that assists with medical needs through an innovative, effective approach which doesn’t involve health insurance.
To comply with GDPR and state legislation such as CCPA in the US to enable future compliance.
A single tool that enabled one estate view and that scales for future growth.
Classified their entire estate and implemented a process to classify on the go.
Samaritan Ministries International was founded in 1994 and is a member-led healthcare sharing organization that assists with medical needs through an innovative, effective approach which doesn’t involve health insurance.
When members have a medical need, they receive support from other members and pay their healthcare providers directly. It has a growing database estate that comprises 25 servers and 75 production databases.
26years of sharing25servers75production databasesThe organization wanted to protect their data to comply with GDPR and state legislation such as CCPA in the US, to enable future compliance.
They wanted to be able to take the data they had collected, understand its sensitivity, and document this to inform the organization about how data is shared. They needed to understand who has access to sensitive data within the organization and when to provide extra security, particularly around PII and PCI data.
Therefore they needed a tool that would support them in their compliance needs at present and in the future, and that would enable them to develop an automated process going forwards to support their data protection needs.
“The categorization of data classification has helped tremendously within the business, most notably with our compliance and security teams.”
Aaron Urfer, DBA, Samaritan Ministries
The solution needed to fit these requirements to enable success for the customer:
The organization chose Redgate’s SQL Data Catalog as it met all their requirements and enabled them to classify their data from the day of purchase. It was also key that follow-on remediation activities were also supported by other Redgate tools, further enabling Samaritan Ministries’ data protection approach.
“The implementation of SQL Data Catalog has driven a change in company culture, particularly around our developer teams and the risks of working in production environments”
Aaron Urfer, DBA, Samaritan Ministries
Redgate’s SQL Data Catalog helped Samaritan Ministries in these ways:
Samaritan Ministries wanted to protect their data to comply with privacy legislation, and needed a tool that would support them in their compliance needs at present and in the future, and that would enable them to develop an automated process going forwards to support their data protection needs.
A healthcare sharing organization that assists with medical needs through an innovative, effective approach which doesn’t involve health insurance.
To comply with GDPR and state legislation such as CCPA in the US to enable future compliance.
A single tool that enabled one estate view and that scales for future growth.
Classified their entire estate and implemented a process to classify on the go.
Samaritan Ministries International was founded in 1994 and is a member-led healthcare sharing organization that assists with medical needs through an innovative, effective approach which doesn’t involve health insurance.
When members have a medical need, they receive support from other members and pay their healthcare providers directly. It has a growing database estate that comprises 25 servers and 75 production databases.
“The categorization of data classification has helped tremendously within the business, most notably with our compliance and security teams.”
Aaron Urfer, DBA, Samaritan Ministries
The organization wanted to protect their data to comply with GDPR and state legislation such as CCPA in the US, to enable future compliance.
They wanted to be able to take the data they had collected, understand its sensitivity, and document this to inform the organization about how data is shared. They needed to understand who has access to sensitive data within the organization and when to provide extra security, particularly around PII and PCI data.
Therefore they needed a tool that would support them in their compliance needs at present and in the future, and that would enable them to develop an automated process going forwards to support their data protection needs.
“The implementation of SQL Data Catalog has driven a change in company culture, particularly around our developer teams and the risks of working in production environments”
Aaron Urfer, DBA, Samaritan Ministries
The solution needed to fit these requirements to enable success for the customer:
The organization chose Redgate’s SQL Data Catalog as it met all their requirements and enabled them to classify their data from the day of purchase. It was also key that follow-on remediation activities were also supported by other Redgate tools, further enabling Samaritan Ministries’ data protection approach.
Redgate’s SQL Data Catalog helped Samaritan Ministries in these ways:
