Top 10 cybersecurity companies in healthcare

With huge amounts of sensitive data and a far-reaching attack surface, the healthcare industry is one of the most targeted sectors for cyber attackers.

In many cases, cyberattacks against healthcare organisations carry a high cost for organisations, with the cost of a data breach growing by 42% over the past two years.  According to Check Point’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, healthcare continues to have the highest data breach cost of any industry, averaging over US$10m per incident.

Here are some of the top cybersecurity challenges for the healthcare industry:

• Data Breaches and Patient Privacy: Protecting patient data is paramount in healthcare. Data breaches can result in the exposure of sensitive medical records, personal information, and financial data. Healthcare organisations must implement robust security measures to safeguard this information from cyberattacks.
• Ransomware Attacks: Ransomware attacks have been on the rise in healthcare. These attacks can disrupt hospital operations, leading to delayed patient care and potential harm. Attackers often demand large ransoms to unlock critical systems and data, putting a significant financial burden on healthcare institutions.
• IoT Device Vulnerabilities: The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in healthcare, such as medical devices and wearables, has expanded the attack surface. Many of these devices lack proper security measures, making them vulnerable to hacking. Securing these devices is crucial to prevent unauthorised access and potential patient harm.
• Legacy Systems and Software: Many healthcare organisations still rely on legacy systems and outdated software that may not receive regular security updates. These systems are often more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Migrating to more secure and up-to-date technologies can be a challenge due to cost and compatibility issues.
• Human Error and Insider Threats: Human error remains a significant cybersecurity challenge. Healthcare employees may inadvertently compromise security through actions like clicking on phishing emails or mishandling patient data. Insider threats, whether intentional or accidental, can pose a serious risk to data security and patient privacy.

With this in mind, Cyber Magazine looks at 10 of the leading cybersecurity companies helping protect the healthcare industry.

10: Menlo Security

Menlo Security helps businesses evade threats, especially those in the healthcare sector. Founded in 2013, Menlo Security specialises in Internet Isolation, Cybersecurity, Network Security, Remote Browser Isolation, Cloud Security, CASB, and Zero Trust. It has published an eBook on the subject 'Healthcare’s essential guide to preventing cybersecurity breaches', which covers subjects such as protecting against email-based threats, reimaging online security for federal agencies and stopping malware for good.

9: Imprivata

Imprivata is transforming the way organisations solve security challenges and protect their data. It is an expert in cybersecurity software, technology and security, covering single sign-on, authentication management, clinical workflows, secure text messaging, patient identification, identity management and multi-factor authentication.

Healthcare businesses can use the Imprivata FairWarning PPI Platform to protect patient data stored across EHR, cloud, and big data as required by HIPAA.

8: Claroty

Claroty empowers organisations to secure cyber-physical systems across industrial, healthcare, public sector, and commercial environments: the Extended Internet of Things (XIoT).

Its Medigate solution is a modular, SaaS-powered healthcare cybersecurity platform that scales to protect your environment, address your use cases, and fulfil your goals as they evolve.

The solution extends cybersecurity across the entire healthcare XIoT, from IV pumps and ultrasounds to smart HVAC and lighting systems.

7: Imperva

Cybersecurity leader Imperva delivers end-to-end protection and compliance for critical healthcare data and applications.

Imperva Data Security Fabric secures and monitors data activity anywhere; on-premises, in the cloud, spread across multiple clouds, or any combination thereof. Its machine learning algorithms, meanwhile, span healthcare organisations’ data to find threats and anomalous behaviour in real-time.

Meanwhile, Imperva’s Managed Data Security Services solution offers 24/7 proactive monitoring and expertise to maximise the health, security, and insights from Imperva Data Security Fabric.

6: CyberArk

CyberArk is a vital security partner for over 50% of the Fortune 500 companies and more than 35% of the Global 2000, with offices in the USA, Israel, UK, Singapore, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands and Turkey.

CyberArk supports healthcare providers by building automation capabilities that prevent human error and allow IT operations to laser in on its most critical work. The company has a flexible approach which secures privileged access vulnerabilities without disturbing the business.

5: Trend Micro

A leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, Trend Micro security solutions can help healthcare organisations improve security before, during, and after an attack.

Trend Micro provides visibility into cybersecurity risks and threats in hospitals across IT, OT and communication technology (CT) environments using legacy and/or modern systems. Its unified cybersecurity platform across IT, OT, and CT provides protection, detection, and response to solve cyber incidents and reduce alert fatigue for security teams with minimal total cost of ownership (TCO) for security operations.

4: Check Point

​​​​​​​Check Point offers the industry’s most comprehensive cybersecurity solution for healthcare IoT. With clinical domain expertise, Check Point prevents IoT-related attacks and continually minimises IoT attack surfaces, all in a way that is easily scalable and non-disruptive to critical medical processes.

Check Point’s integrated healthcare cyber security solution increases the level of security and reduces costs by delivering unified threat prevention across networks, cloud, mobile endpoint and IoT without disrupting critical business and medical processes. The Check Point CloudGuard suite, meanwhile, provides comprehensive multi-cloud security and compliance solutions for healthcare.

3: GE HealthCare

​​​​​​​GE HealthCare is working nonstop to help protect organisations, teams and patients from today’s increasing cybersecurity threats as part of its aim to create a world where healthcare has no limits.

From the security designed and built into its products and services to the 24/7/365 risk management provided by its Skeye cybersecurity solution, GE Healthcare helps healthcare organisations safeguard their devices, systems, and data, enabling them to seize every opportunity of connected care.

2: Palo Alto Networks

​​​​​​​Palo Alto Networks helps healthcare organisations around the world to thwart cyberattacks and protect patient data so they can focus on delivering better patient outcomes and experiences.

The global cybersecurity leader continually delivers innovation to enable secure digital transformation, even as the pace of change is accelerating. 

Its portfolio of solutions is designed to buttress and enhance the security of existing infrastructure so that health providers can pursue innovation while effectively protecting patient and data security.

Palo Alto Networks’ cloud-delivered security automates threat analysis and update deployments to help ensure consistent patient data protection.

1: Crowdstrike

​​​​​​​CrowdStrike protects healthcare systems from cyberattacks, enabling organisations to focus on delivering quality patient care.

The global cybersecurity leader has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk — endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.

CrowdStrike provides scalable cloud-native products and complete turnkey services to protect endpoints from any location. The cloud-native Falcon platform combines threat intelligence, and response services to seamlessly support organisations’ rapid transition to a remote workforce, and telemedicine.

In addition, its solutions lower costs to help organisations meet budget requirements. On average, CrowdStrike customers lower their IT Security costs by 30%. The Falcon platform unifies visibility, prevention, detection and threat intelligence across devices, servers, virtual servers/desktops, containers and public clouds.

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