Cyber Risk & Security Platform
Healthcare
Protect patient information, clinical services, people and the technology healthcare depends on.
Healthcare depends on technology at almost every stage of service delivery. Patient records, appointments, diagnostics, communications, prescribing, administration, finance and specialist clinical systems all rely on digital infrastructure and the organisations that support it.
That makes cyber security more than an IT concern. When systems are unavailable or information is compromised, the consequences can reach clinicians, operational teams, patients and the continuity of care.
ConnectProtect brings cyber risk visibility and managed security together, helping healthcare organisations understand what is exposed, monitor selected third parties, protect endpoints, detect suspicious activity and prioritise vulnerabilities.
Your healthcare environment
is bigger than the traditional network
Public and private healthcare environments can include:
- Corporate IT and employee endpoints
- Electronic patient and health record systems
- Clinical and practice management applications
- Patient portals, booking systems and digital services
- Cloud applications and hosted infrastructure
- Internet-facing websites, domains and services
- Remote access and privileged administration
- Diagnostic, specialist and connected technology
- Healthcare software and technology providers
- Outsourced services, contractors and supply-chain partners
- Software and infrastructure vulnerabilities
Know how you're exposed
The healthcare cyber security challenges we help you address
Healthcare has an additional security dimension: continuity of care. A cyber incident can become an operational problem when technology supports clinical decisions, patient administration, diagnostics, communications or access to important information.
Protect care without losing sight of cyber risk
Healthcare environments can have demanding availability, safety and change-management requirements. Security therefore needs to improve visibility and protection while recognising that clinical and specialist technology may require its own controls, ownership and operating procedures.
Protect sensitive patient and organisational information
Healthcare organisations hold highly sensitive personal and health information alongside employee, financial and operational data. Protecting access to that information and monitoring the devices used to reach it are fundamental security layers.
Choose the right product
Know what is visible
from the internet
Digital healthcare services evolve. Patient portals, websites, cloud infrastructure,remote-access services, applications and domains can create an external footprint thatchanges over time.
ConnectProtect® Horizon
Horizon provides Managed External Attack Surface Management (EASM), giving your organisation an outside-in view of what is visible from the internet.
- Identify externally visible assets
- Track changes to the external attack surface
- Surface potential security issues
- Prioritise findings for investigation
- Understand what an external observer can see
Healthcare is connected - and so is its cyber risk
Healthcare providers rarely operate alone. NHS organisations, private hospitals, clinics, GP and primary care providers, care organisations and specialist providers can depend on software vendors, cloud platforms, laboratories, outsourced services, IT partners, medical technology providers and other third parties.
Some suppliers may process sensitive information or connect to systems. Others provide technology or services that are important to day-to-day healthcare delivery. Understanding those dependencies is an important part of the security picture.
ConnectProtect® Realm
Realm provides continuous third-party cyber risk monitoring for selected suppliers and thirdparties, helping maintain visibility between formal reviews.
- Monitor selected critical suppliers
- Identify changes in external security posture
- Prioritise third parties that need attention
- Support supplier and procurement conversations
- Add ongoing visibility between periodic assessments
- Focus monitoring on dependencies that matter most
Protect the endpoints used across healthcare
Healthcare workforces can be highly distributed. Clinical staff, administrative teams, managers, support functions and remote workers may all use endpoints to access important information and services.
ConnectProtect® Core
Core is a combination of security technology and people watching for threats – without your charity having to build its own security operations centre.
Core is managed endpoint security with:
- Antivirus
- EDR
- anti-ransomware protection
- 24x7x365 human SOC monitoring
Identify vulnerabilities, prioritise them and track progress.
Security monitoring that does not stop when the working day ends
Healthcare services can operate around the clock, but many organisations do not have the resources to maintain a fully staffed internal security operation 24x7. Security technology may generate alerts at any time, and somebody needs to determine which ones matter.
ConnectProtect® Unity
Unity is Managed Detection and Response (MDR) that connects supported security
technologies and adds 24x7x365 managed monitoring, investigation and response.
Where supported, Unity can work with technology already in place rather than forcing unnecessary replacement.
Your people focus on the cause. Security specialists help watch the signals.
Four connected questions for charity cyber security
Good cyber security does not have to mean dozens of disconnected tools. ConnectProtect
brings five complementary capabilities together around questions trustees, leaders and IT
teams should be able to answer.
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ConnectProtect® Horizon
What can an attacker see?
Understand your external attack surface.
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ConnectProtect® Realm
Which suppliers could introduce risk?
Monitor selected third parties.
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ConnectProtect® Core
Are your endpoints protected and watched?
Add managed endpoint protection and 24x7x365 human monitoring.
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ConnectProtect® Unity
Would we detect suspicious security activity?
Connect supported security technologies and add managed detection and response
Made for any size
Designed to complement specialist healthcare security
ConnectProtect complements, rather than replaces, specialist medical-device security, clinical safety processes or healthcare-specific controls. It provides complementary cyber risk and managed security capabilities around the wider organisation.
That distinction matters. Healthcare environments can include specialist clinical and connected technologies with different ownership, support and safety requirements from conventional IT. ConnectProtect strengthens the wider security picture while allowing those specialist controls to remain part of the overall architecture.
One platform. Five connected questions. Security capability around the organisation delivering care.
For private healthcare: Protect trust as well as operations
Private healthcare providers depend on patient confidence as well as clinical outcomes. A cyber incident can create operational disruption while raising difficult questions about sensitive information and the security of digital services.
ConnectProtect helps private providers add managed security capability without automatically building a large internal security team, making stronger monitoring and risk visibility accessible to organisations of different sizes.
For public healthcare: Strengthen visibility around complex environments
Colleges can combine open learning environments, diverse users, specialist curriculum technology and substantial administrative systems. Security needs to support that accessibility while protecting the systems and information the institution depends on.
Cyber security that supports healthcare resilience
The NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) helps organisations assess their data security and provide assurance about how they protect NHS patient data and systems. Requirements depend on the organisation type; the toolkit includes assessments aligned to the National Cyber Security Centre’s Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF).
ConnectProtect does not replace the DSPT, CAF, clinical safety, information governance or an organisation’s regulatory and assurance responsibilities. Its services support practical cyber security capabilities around external visibility, protection, monitoring, third-party risk and vulnerability management.
Read the NHS DSPT guidance and current assessment requirements.
Know what your industry needs.
Pick the right product for your business. With the help of ConnectProtect, we can make cyber security simple and protect you from the threats of today and tomrrow.
