Healthcare cybersecurity

How to achieve healthcare cybersecurity

For teams managing healthcare cybersecurity, it can feel like every day brings new complications and tougher challenges. Ransomware and DDoS attacks are on the rise. The rise of telehealth and mobile workforces makes protecting the network increasingly difficult. Healthcare digital transformation and the digital front door are introducing new technologies that increase the attack surface, while legacy medical devices are increasingly difficult to patch and update. And as the difficulties in achieving healthcare cybersecurity mount, security teams everywhere are facing constrained budgets and a shortage of skills.

We can help. At Spectrum Enterprise, we offer proven technology, responsive support and a range of managed services. When you partner with our healthcare cybersecurity experts, we’ll help you tackle your toughest threats, streamline security management and achieve greater protection for your systems, your data, your people and your patients.

Legacy medical devices increase the attack surface

One area of healthcare that’s particularly vulnerable to attack and abuse: legacy medical devices. Technology like insulin pumps, intra-cardiac defibrillators, pacemakers and intrathecal pain pumps are often older devices that still offer vital capabilities for patients and clinical operations. Replacing these machines with newer technologies may be cost prohibitive. Yet, as your healthcare organization looks to maximize the value and life of your investments, your medical teams may be using these devices beyond your healthcare IT security team’s ability to protect them.

Overcoming this challenge to healthcare cybersecurity requires a multi-step approach. Recommendations include:

• Implement regular software updates and shorten the turnaround time for security patches.
• Establish firewalls and ensure compatibility with modern security protocols.
• Require strong authentication and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) functionality for users, devices and applications accessing medical devices.
• Adopt strategic and architectural approaches to healthcare cybersecurity that focus on reducing your attack surface.
• Choose network and connectivity solutions that enable sensitive data to be stored, transported and shared with strong security.

Healthcare cybersecurity with Spectrum Enterprise

When managing security challenges like protecting legacy medical devices, you and your team can rely on Spectrum Enterprise. For more than 10 years, we’ve served as a partner to 115,000+ healthcare organizations and health information security teams, providing solutions for communication, connectivity and healthcare cybersecurity. Along with trusted and proven technologies, we provide deep expertise around designing, implementing and maintaining solutions to help you achieve your security goals.

Our portfolio includes comprehensive solutions and fully managed or co-managed services.

• Managed network security. We offer two managed solutions for network security. Managed Network Edge helps simplify, automate and integrate security across your network. With advanced firewalls, unified threat management, content filtering, malware protection and more, this cloud-based platform delivers managed security for single locations or larger wide area networks. For enterprises, our Enterprise Network Edge offering provides exceptional protection for networks, data centers and high-volume traffic. This solution includes advanced firewalls, content filtering, deep packet inspection, unified threat management, malware protection and more.
• Managed cloud security. Secure Access with Cisco Duo empowers remote workers by allowing IT staff to establish secure access policies for all users and devices, no matter where they connect from. Cloud Security with Cisco+ Secure Connect delivers a consistent and universal security experience for all your users, relying on cloud-based firewalls, secure web gateways, ZTNA and more.
• DDoS protection. Spectrum Enterprise DDoS Protection service keeps your network and web properties accessible by quickly stopping volumetric DDoS attacks. This technology automatically detects and granularly blocks attacking traffic to minimize the impact and maintain a good network experience for your users.

The benefits of a trusted partner

When you partner on healthcare cybersecurity with Spectrum Enterprise, you can count on the power of an integrated security experience. Our solutions integrate seamlessly with your network and internet provider to offer a holistic approach to networking and security.

• A highly secure network. We deliver a strong, safe backbone and world-class network operations center (NOC) to support your needs from our core to the edge of your network.
• Exceptional expertise. To combat zero-day threats more effectively, we partner with major security leaders like Fortinet and NetScout to review, verify and apply measures that are proven to keep your network and IT environment secure.
• Multilevel security. From blocking volumetric DDoS attacks to defending against application-layer attacks, we deliver continuous protection to avoid costly disruptions and enable faster threat identification and mitigation.
• Greater flexibility. As your security needs change, our broad portfolio of solutions allows you to adjust strategies quickly and seamlessly. From perimeter-based protection to next-generation firewalls with advanced security services, our technology is available as fully managed solutions that minimize the burden on practice and hospital information technology teams.

Why customers love Spectrum Enterprise

At Spectrum Enterprise, we offer scalable, fiber technology and business growth solutions for America’s largest businesses. Along with technology for healthcare cybersecurity, our portfolio also includes HDTV solutions, voice and collaboration technology, edge computing security solutions and managed services that provide IT teams with invaluable expertise and hands-on help.

With Spectrum Enterprise, you can count on:

• An outstanding experience. Our relentless commitment to providing the best client experience delivers extraordinary value for our client base, which includes 80% of Fortune 500 companies.
• Reliability and reach. With over 245,000 route-miles and 317,000 fiber-lit buildings nationwide, our private fiber network offers service-level agreements (SLAs) with 100 percent uptime for Dedicated Fiber Internet, Ethernet Services, Cloud Connect and Enterprise trucking.¹
• Responsive support. We offer 100% U.S.-based support 24/7/365.

FAQs

What are the biggest threats to healthcare cybersecurity?

Ransomware, DDoS attacks, data breaches and phishing attacks rank among the highest threats to patient information and healthcare data security.

What is the digital front door in healthcare?

The digital front door refers to the digital technologies used by healthcare providers to better manage the patient’s experience. The digital front door includes all the places where patients and members can digitally interact with providers and payers to achieve greater access, increased efficiency and better experiences across the continuum of care.

¹100% uptime SLA guarantee applies only to Dedicated Fiber Internet, Secure Dedicated Fiber Internet, Ethernet Services, Cloud Connect and Enterprise Trunking.