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CASE STUDY: How One Health System Unified Device Security Across Years of Acquisitions

Written by securithings | Aug 11, 2026, 3:41:32 PM

When an enterprise health system grows through acquisition, each new organization brings its own physical security infrastructure, device inventory, and compliance gaps, and those gaps compound.

See how one large health system brought roughly 10,000 physical security devices across a portfolio of subsidiaries and acquired organizations under unified control, in hours.

What you'll take away

  • Why growth through acquisition quietly creates device risk: blank or shared passwords across thousands of cameras, firmware with no scheduling mechanism, and orphan devices no one is tracking
  • How the health system replaced manual hygiene at scale with automated password rotation and firmware management across 8,000-plus cameras
  • How unified visibility gave the security team a single inventory across every subsidiary and acquired organization, where every device is finally accounted for
  • How a ServiceNow integration routed alerts and created tickets automatically, replacing manual handoffs between security and IT with structured incident routing

Read this if…
You're responsible for physical security across a health system that has grown through acquisition, and the accumulated device, compliance, and inventory gaps have become a risk you can no longer ignore.