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Healthcare IT services

Healthcare networks carry traffic with very different risk profiles: clinical workstations, EHR backends, biomedical devices, guest Wi-Fi, and visiting clinicians. We segment them properly, align controls to HIPAA and HITRUST, and design with the understanding that a network change can't take imaging offline.

What we see breaking first

The operational headaches buyers in healthcare routinely describe to us. If two or more of these sound familiar, the rest of this page is worth reading.

Flat networks where biomed devices, clinical workstations, and guest Wi-Fi share broadcast domains
Legacy modalities (imaging, lab analyzers) that can't be patched but need to be reachable
EHR access models that are too permissive, every clinician sees more than they should
Audit logs that don't survive long enough for OCR investigations
Change windows of effectively zero, hospitals don't have maintenance time

What we do for healthcare

HIPAA-aligned network segmentation

Clinical, biomed, corporate, and guest traffic separated with documented policy, allowing only the flows clinicians actually need.

Medical device & IoT visibility

Vendor-neutral OT/IoT discovery (Claroty, Armis, Medigate-style approaches) so unmanaged biomed devices are inventoried, baselined, and monitored, not invisible.

Identity & EHR access controls

SSO, MFA, conditional access, and least-privilege entitlements wired to your identity provider. Break-glass procedures documented.

Audit-ready logging & retention

Centralized logs with retention that matches HIPAA, HITRUST, and OCR investigation expectations, searchable months and years later.

Change discipline that fits a hospital

Tested cutover plans, rollback paths, and changes that don't require taking imaging or telemetry offline. We design around your operational reality, not against it.

Frameworks & regulations that come up

We map controls and gather evidence against the frameworks your industry actually uses. Working alongside your auditor or assessor, never replacing them.

HIPAA Security Rule

Administrative, physical, and technical safeguards mapped to controls, with documented evidence per requirement. We design with the December 2024 NPRM in mind (mandatory MFA, encryption at rest and in transit, asset inventories and network maps, removal of the addressable tier), so you are not retrofitting when the final rule lands.

HITRUST CSF

Where required by partners or payers, control mapping and evidence collection that lines up to HITRUST i1 or r2 assessments.

NIST CSF

Risk-based program structure that maps cleanly to other frameworks, useful when boards or insurance carriers ask for a posture summary.

State breach notification (FL Information Protection Act)

Incident response procedures and notification timelines aligned to state requirements, plus federal HHS expectations.

Common questions in healthcare

How do you handle medical devices that can't be patched?

We segment them into zones with explicit allow-list policies, only the flows the device actually needs are open, and the segment is monitored for anomalies. Compensating controls plus visibility, since patching often isn't an option.

Are you HIPAA-experienced specifically, or just "compliance-aware"?

We've worked with covered entities and business associates directly, signed BAAs, and designed networks audited under HIPAA and HITRUST. We can speak fluently to OCR investigation expectations and security incident reporting timelines.

How do you deploy without disrupting clinical operations?

Staged migrations with parallel-run periods, change windows scheduled around clinical realities (often weekends or low-census periods), and explicit rollback for every change. We design changes that don't require an outage; when one is unavoidable, it's communicated and tested.

Designed for healthcare

Tell us about your environment and where it hurts. We'll come back with a plan and an honest assessment of fit.

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