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Technology
- EHR and practice-management platforms
- Legacy operating systems
- Connected clinical and IoMT devices
- Cloud, telehealth, and mobile applications
Cybersecurity for healthcare
Protecting data is protecting the patient
A compromised credential, vulnerable server, unmanaged medical device, or ransomware infection can affect access to records, scheduling, billing, prescriptions, diagnostics, and clinical decision-making.
HIPAA-focused controlsClinical continuity24/7 monitoring options
A uniquely difficult threat environment
Cyber safety is patient safety
Healthcare environments combine highly sensitive information with systems that must remain continuously available.
Healthcare organizations depend on electronic health records, practice-management systems, cloud applications, connected clinical devices, telehealth platforms, remote users, and specialized vendors. A cybersecurity event can therefore become both a privacy incident and an interruption to patient care.
Healthcare breach pressure continues
HHS reports that large healthcare breach reports increased by 102% from 2018 through 2023, while the number of affected individuals increased by 1,002%, primarily because of hacking and ransomware.
Source: HHS Office for Civil Rights
Common exposure points
The clinical environment creates many paths to sensitive information
Access
- Remote employees and contractors
- Broad privileged access
- Shared or unmanaged credentials
- Third-party vendor connections
Resilience
- Inconsistent patching and hardening
- Limited after-hours monitoring
- Backups reachable from production
- Untested restoration procedures
HIPAA security
Current obligations—and a more prescriptive direction
The current HIPAA Security Rule requires appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of ePHI.
The proposed rule would strengthen or require controls such as:
- Multi-factor authentication
- Encryption of ePHI at rest and in transit
- Asset inventories and network maps
- Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing
- Network segmentation
- Separate backup and recovery controls
- Incident response planning and testing
- Annual compliance audits and technical evidence
Prepare without guessing at a final date
HTS helps healthcare organizations address current Security Rule obligations while preparing for the more prescriptive security direction reflected in the NPRM and the HHS Healthcare and Public Health Cybersecurity Performance Goals.
Our role is to help translate security expectations into deployed, maintained, and testable controls.
How HTS helps
Layered controls for healthcare operations
Endpoint protection
Behavioral protection, automated containment, investigation context, remediation, and rollback for supported endpoints and servers.
Asset and exposure visibility
Identify unknown systems, external resources, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations that may fall outside normal inventories.
Identity protection
Reduce the ability of an attacker to move from one compromised account or device to clinical and administrative systems.
Continuous monitoring
Investigate alerts, contain threats, and escalate incidents without waiting for normal business hours.
Resilient recovery
Use protected backups, isolated recovery options, and restoration testing to improve continuity after an incident.
Security evidence
Produce logs, vulnerability reports, configuration records, test findings, and recovery results that demonstrate operating controls.
Who we support
Healthcare organizations and the partners that serve them
- Physician and dental practices
- Clinics and ambulatory care organizations
- Healthcare groups and specialty providers
- Health plans and benefit administrators
- Healthcare technology and service companies
- HIPAA business associates
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