Robust, Compliant Web Security for Healthcare Providers

A compromise of patient data can result in punitive fines and penalties. No other industry has such strict legal and regulatory frameworks for maintaining tight data security.

Successful system breaches can result in ransomware attacks: hackers encrypt patient data until a ransom is paid. In other industries, the worst possible consequence of this is loss of revenue. In healthcare, it can result in the loss of life.

As patients expect more health-related services to be available online, web applications and APIs are growing in complexity. This means their attack surfaces are expanding, creating more opportunities for threat actors.

The Internet threat environment is always evolving. Healthcare organizations cannot allow their web security solutions to fall behind. Unfortunately, traditional solutions such as physical or virtual appliances are difficult and time-consuming to keep up-to-date, especially when IT resources are already stretched thin.

As healthcare organizations adopt technologies such as cloud computing, additional challenges have arisen. Cloud web security offers many advantages over legacy approaches, but most solutions have a major flaw: they decrypt and process incoming traffic on their own infrastructure. This can raise privacy and regulatory issues.

Healthcare organizations must comply with a wide variety of legal and regulatory standards. Their web security solutions must be fully compliant as well.