Empowering secure connectivity for healthcare

Ensure compliance and secure connectivity for your applications that are critical for delivering excellent patient care across the hybrid cloud.

At AlgoSec, the global leader in securing application connectivity, anywhere, we understand the unique challenges faced by healthcare organizations in securing their networks while maintaining compliance, ensuring secure connectivity for critical data and applications, streamlining M&A integrations, and implementing robust zero-trust strategies to combat emerging threats like cyberattacks and ransomware attacks. Our comprehensive solutions are designed to address healthcare cybersecurity challenges head-on, enabling healthcare providers to safeguard patient information, maintain regulatory compliance, and protect against evolving cyber threats.

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Compliance: Ensuring regulatory adherence

Healthcare organizations operate within a stringent regulatory environment that mandates the protection of patient information and adherence to standards such as HIPAA, GDPR, and privacy regulations. AlgoSec provides robust compliance management solutions that enable healthcare providers to:

• HIPAA Compliance: Automate policy management and ensure that firewall configurations align with HIPAA requirements, facilitating audit trails and policy enforcement.

• GDPR Compliance: Simplify data protection efforts by automating compliance workflows, enhancing visibility into data flows, and enforcing privacy controls to meet GDPR obligations.

• Privacy Regulations: Enable healthcare organizations to maintain compliance with evolving privacy regulations, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive patient data.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released an updated final version of their guidance on February 14, 2024. This guidance outlines best practices for regulated healthcare entities to enhance cybersecurity measures and ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule.

Today’s healthcare is an interconnected landscape, maintaining secure connectivity has become paramount to ensure the availability and integrity of critical applications and sensitive information such as medical records. AlgoSec offers solutions that:

• Optimize Network Security: Streamline the management of firewall policies and ensure secure connectivity for critical healthcare applications, mitigating the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches.

• Enhance Application Performance: Improve application performance and availability through intelligent traffic management and policy optimization, ensuring seamless access to healthcare data and services while maintaining security.

Electronic health records (EHRs) drive digital transformation within the global healthcare sector and play a pivotal role in the healthcare cybersecurity strategy. EHRs encompass the method by which patient data is stored, with many healthcare providers leveraging cloud-based platforms for data maintenance and management. Cloud connectivity empowers patients to retrieve their medical records from any location and at any time.

EHRs enable healthcare professionals to swiftly review patient histories, aiding in making well-informed decisions and diagnoses.

Healthcare organizations undergoing mergers and acquisitions often face the challenge of integrating disparate network environments and security policies. AlgoSec’s M&A solutions enable healthcare providers to:

• Simplify Integration: Automate the analysis and optimization of firewall policies across hybrid, multi-vendor environments, accelerating the integration process and reducing the risk of disruptions.

• Ensure Compliance: Ensure that integrated networks remain compliant with regulatory standards and organizational security policies, minimizing compliance gaps and vulnerabilities.

Reuters reported on November 14, 2023: “Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the global healthcare sector should continue to rise next year, led by healthcare companies rather than private equity, according to a survey of industry executives.

The report, published by investment bank Jefferies on Tuesday, surveyed 600 senior leaders in the sector. It found 68% of respondents expected the volume of deals in healthcare to rise in 2024, with 60% believing companies within the sector will dominate the transactions.”

In the face of escalating cyber threats such as ransomware and insider attacks, adopting a zero-trust approach, along with multi-factor authentication, is essential to safeguarding healthcare networks and protecting patient data. It is crucial to ensure that connected medical devices, especially those with outdated internal operating systems, are segregated into distinct network segments. These segments should be fortified with firewalls, VPNs, ZTNAs and other security tools to provide robust protection. AlgoSec’s zero-trust solutions help healthcare organizations:

• Combat Ransomware: Implement segmentation strategies and access controls to contain ransomware threats and prevent lateral movement within the network, and thwart cybercriminals.

• Enforce Segmentation: Implement granular network segmentation to limit the impact of security breaches and unauthorized access attempts, reducing the attack surface and enhancing overall security posture.

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• Regulatory Compliance Assurance: AlgoSec simplifies compliance reporting for healthcare regulations and all other leading industry standards like HIPAA and GDPR, ensuring adherence with the click of a button.

• Security and Risk Management: With sensitive patient information at stake, healthcare organizations prioritize robust security measures to protect against cyber incidents like data breaches and unauthorized access by hackers. Access to healthcare industry-wide threat intelligence data offers insights into the frequency of specific types of cyberattacks. AlgoSec helps in identifying, assessing, and mitigating network security risks, ensuring the protection of sensitive patient data through comprehensive risk management and mitigation efforts.

• Automated Security Policy Management: Healthcare networks benefit from AlgoSec’s zero-touch automation for managing security policy changes, minimizing disruptions in the healthcare system while maintaining compliance.

• Enhanced Visibility through Application Discovery: AlgoSec’s application discovery provides comprehensive insight into critical infrastructure, aiding in efficient segmentation and M&A integration.

• Efficient Segmentation: Insights from application discovery enable healthcare organizations to implement precise segmentation strategies, reducing the attack surface and enhancing security.

• Zero Trust Security: AlgoSec implements zero-trust strategies, including segmentation and access controls, to prevent cybersecurity threats like ransomware and insider attacks, bolstering overall security posture.

Cyber Safety is Patient Safety! With AlgoSec’s comprehensive healthcare cybersecurity solutions, healthcare organizations can effectively address compliance requirements, secure critical data and applications, streamline M&A integrations, and strengthen their security posture against evolving cyber threats. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help safeguard your healthcare critical infrastructure, security policies and applications.