Healthcare & Pharmacutical
The Challenge: Protecting Patients and Their Data
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The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 spurred the broad availability of patients’ information across providers. Hand in hand with the HITECH Act came the assumption of care and protection for patient data.
Failing to protect this data has an unparalleled cost for healthcare organizations. At more than $400 per patient record, a healthcare data breach costs three times as much as a cyber-incident in any other industry.
This can be detrimental to a large organization. It would be crushing to a small healthcare provider.
Adding to the challenge, both the problem and solution are not one size fits all. The vulnerabilities, level of exposure, and remedies vary based on a healthcare provider’s size and function. Covered entities under HIPPA, regardless of size, must meet required regulatory compliance.
Effective cyber-management for healthcare requires targeted knowledge of the threats and a clear path to remediation.
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Medical Offices and Smaller Clinics
Doctors’ offices and small medical groups are in the business of healing and care, not technology. Cybersecurity resources are few, but the threat surface is substantial:
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IT functions are shared between office staff or outsourced.
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Business software is frequently off the shelf and commercially acquired.
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Without dedicated resources, patch management and other cybersecurity policies can be neglected or are overwhelming to the staff.
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Solutions that address the needs of affiliated hospitals are overkill for the small office.
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Vulnerability Management for Healthcare Providers with AssuredScanDKV®
Studies have shown that about 80% of intrusions begin with an attack against known software vulnerabilities. New threats appear frequently. With a reliance on off-the-shelf back-office software and third-party Electronic Medical Records (EMR) solutions, smaller medical groups and doctors’ offices are attractive targets for these exploits.
AssuredScanDKV® scans software libraries, DLLs, and executables and produces a catalog of prioritized vulnerabilities and the exact steps needed to remediate the threats.
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Cyber-threat Identification
in Regional Hospitals and Practices
The threat surface for large medical practices and regional hospitals span business operations, medical software and patient data, and electronic medical devices. This complex array of technology makes identifying risks and protecting data and devices a challenge for overwhelmed and understaffed cybersecurity teams:
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Multi-purpose networks support business operations and patient care devices.
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Bi-directional data between providers and facilities increases risk.
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Medical devices attached to networks weren’t designed with secure connections in mind.
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Meeting regulatory reporting requirements is both critical and time-consuming.
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Right-Sized Cybersecurity Solutions for Medical Practices and Hospitals
Hospitals and providers must ensure network and application security while managing budget restrictions. Assured Enterprises has flexible solutions to identify your cyber risk.
Cyber Health Essentials CheckupTM:
Based on Assured’s comprehensive risk assessment system, TripleHelix®, Cyber Health Essentials CheckupTM offers a painless, scaled-down assessment that is cost-effective and easy to understand. It starts with a web-based evaluation and provides a mini Roadmap that identifies what you’re doing well and areas of improvement. The evaluation also results in our proprietary Baseline CyberScore® Range. This score reads like a FICO® score, making it easily understandable for cybersecurity staff and Board members alike.
AssuredScanDKV®:
AssuredScanDKV® provides a level of protection that no other cybersecurity product can. That’s because AssuredScanDKV® is different than network and code scanners. By automatically scanning libraries, DLLs, and executables, AssuredScanDKV® pinpoints holes created by known vulnerabilities in software--the source of as many as 80% of intrusions.
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Cyber Solutions for National and International Healthcare Providers and Medical Centers
From data breaches to ransomware attacks, national and international healthcare providers and medical centers are an attractive target for cyber-attackers. Your organization must defend data and devices while meeting regulatory requirements in multiple countries, across the globe:
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As a high profile target, cyber incidents threaten both your data and your reputation.
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Cyber defense must be managed at multiple locations.
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Patient nationality and locations require that you meet several regulatory requirements, not just HIPPA.
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Limited staff with the right skills means cybersecurity teams are overwhelmed, operating as reactive teams when they would prefer to be implementing proactive solutions.
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Comprehensive Cyber Risk and Application Assessment
Your cyber risk solution must be comprehensive, clear, and provides detail that supports cost-justification. At the same time, an assessment should offer a common language for CISOs and their C-level partners and board members to have informed conversations around the results and next steps.
TripleHelix®:
TripleHelix® from Assured Enterprises gives healthcare organizations a three-strand analysis that encompasses thousands of data points to measure cyber maturity, threats, and impacts. Together, these form the CyberScore®, a three-digit cybersecurity score that is similar to a FICO® score. This 360-degree assessment means your personalized score reflects not only technical risk but potential threats from gaps in procedure or policy.
Regulatory Compliance Dossier:
In addition to the CyberScore®, TripleHelix® offers the option of delivering virtually any regulatory cyber report you need, giving you a single source for risk assessment and regulatory compliance.
Deep Application Scanning:
The vast majority of intrusions start with a known software vulnerability. AssuredScanDKV® is the only deep software scanning tool that identifies vulnerabilities in executables and libraries and offers a plan for remediation, saving you time and money by directing teams to the exact known vulnerability.