Healthcare
Ransomware against hospital systems can halt admissions; a vulnerability in medical equipment can directly endanger lives. ENISA's 2025 report places healthcare in the EU's top three most attacked sectors, with average incident costs exceeding € 2 m. Facilities must meet NIS2 and GDPR requirements alongside MDR/IVDR regulations for medical devices.
We can support large hospital networks, laboratories and device manufacturers, enhancing cybersecurity without disrupting care or distribution.
Use cases
- Clinical network segmentation – isolating HIS, PACS, RIS and medical devices, DPI firewalls for specialist protocols
- IT/IoMT monitoring – continuous anomaly detection in clinical systems
- Incident response – isolation of infected workstations and rapid restoration of registration/lab services, ready-made response playbooks
- NIS2 audit – compliance gap analysis, penetration tests and tabletop workshops for leadership
- Ransomware protection – offline copies, immutable versions and regular recovery exercises
- Staff training – phishing awareness, cyber hygiene for clinicians, nursing teams, reception and technical staff
How we help the healthcare industry
Why is this industry targeted?
- Time pressure – risks to patient health or life favour decisions to pay ransoms
- Legacy systems – many devices run on unsupported or outdated operating systems
- High-value data – medical records are amongst the most valuable data traded on the black market
Most common healthcare industry threats
- Ransomware/wipers paralysing hospital information systems, PACS and medical archives
- IoMT attacks – compromising patient monitoring systems or active medical devices
- Supply chain sabotage – malicious updates (firmware) to medical equipment
- Phishing of reception and clinical staff, impersonation of insurers or device suppliers
How we help the healthcare industry
- We audit NIS2, GDPR and MDR compliance, mapping risk for clinical systems
- We design zero trust architecture and segmentation across HIS, DMZ, IoMT and national e-health cloud
- We build Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) aligned with ISO 27001 and ISO 27799 for health data
- We develop Incident Response procedures and appropriate reporting to CSIRTs
- We create full policy and runbook documentation for NIS2 audits and regulatory inspections
- We run SOC services with 24/7/365 monitoring and healthcare-specific Threat Intelligence
- We conduct penetration tests and application tests (including those processing medical data)
- We develop BCP/DR plans and exercises to restore clinical areas
- We prepare IT and equipment suppliers to meet contractual requirements and remain in the supply chain
Are you looking to strengthen cyber resilience in a medical facility or meet NIS2?
Contact us – we'll help protect patients, data and reputation, and meet mandated requirements