Enhancing Healthcare Cybersecurity Resilience

Healthcare and Insurance

Cyber Security Assessment & Recommendations

Cloud Security Tools | Secure Data Encryption | Automated Threat Detection and Response Systems | Comprehensive Cybersecurity Framework

With increasing cyber threats and regulatory pressures, our client needed a secure solution that enhanced compliance and data protection across their healthcare systems.

SITUATION

A Fortune 50 Managed Healthcare Organization with more than 26 million members and 80 thousand employees has a goal of maintaining its low-risk cybersecurity posture. This engagement targeted assessment and recommendations for the operations of the cyber security monitoring team.

APPROACH

Discovery Sessions

Collaborated with the leaders of each function to understand their needs and desires.
Comprehensive Evaluation

Evaluated the overall strategy, organizational structure, monitoring tools and technology, playbooks, automation capabilities, processes, and procedures to gain a baseline of our client's current security posture.
Strategic Framework Utilization

Utilized a framework that measured 800 criteria across multiple domains and dimensions to score the current maturity and capabilities.
Tailored Recommendations

Based on the current state assessment evaluation results, recommendations were formulated to specifically address our client's needs.

RESULTS

Risk Reduction

Identified areas that could reduce cyber security risk and included insight into the cost / benefit of those improvements.

Team Restructuring

Recommended organizational changes for the cyber security team to improve effectiveness and agility.

Automation and Playbook

Provided automation strategies and a playbook design framework.

Enhanced Business and IT Alignment

Created a roadmap for implementation of recommendations.

Enhanced Business and IT Alignment

Provided training recommendations and approach that would continue to build the cyber security teams expertise in the always changing threat landscape.

"Our mission with Our Partner was to build a resilient and secure infrastructure that would both meet regulatory demands and protect sensitive patient data. This project demonstrated the critical importance of cybersecurity in healthcare, and we’re proud to have delivered a future-proof solution."

Cory Phipps

Chief Information Security Officer