The stakes in healthcare are unlike any other industry. A cyberattack doesn’t just disrupt operations—it endangers lives. From delayed procedures to inaccessible medical records, even brief downtime can compromise patient safety and outcomes.
Beyond care delivery, healthcare organizations must also safeguard vast amounts of sensitive data. A breach of PHI or PII can result in regulatory penalties, class-action lawsuits, and long-term reputational harm. With increased adoption of cloud platforms, telehealth services, and third-party integrations, the attack surface continues to grow.
That’s why security in healthcare must be proactive, continuous, and adaptable. Whether you run a hospital, outpatient clinic, or healthcare SaaS company, cyber risk management is now essential to clinical and operational resilience.
And the damage isn’t limited to lost revenue. Cyber incidents can lead to HIPAA violations, OCR investigations, patient trust erosion, and compliance failures under HHS, 405(d) guidance, or even state-level data protection laws.
Cybersecurity can’t be an afterthought—it has to be built into your core systems and workflows. Whether you’re modernizing legacy infrastructure or expanding digital services, protecting patient data and system availability is as critical as delivering care.
See why threats are rising in our latest blog post on healthcare cybersecurity trends.
Healthcare organizations face daily cyber threats that exploit their complexity, urgency, and legacy systems. These are some of the most pressing
Many medical imaging devices, lab systems, and treatment technologies still run on outdated operating systems with known vulnerabilities. These legacy systems can’t be easily patched and are often poorly segmented from the rest of the network.
Attackers specifically target EMR platforms to steal large volumes of patient data for identity theft, extortion, or resale on the dark web. Once breached, it’s difficult to fully assess the damage or guarantee data integrity.
Healthcare employees are a constant target for phishing emails impersonating patients, partners, or vendors. A single click can lead to credential theft, data exfiltration, or ransomware installation.
Healthcare depends on an extensive ecosystem of vendors, service providers, and software partners. A compromise in one link of this chain can jeopardize your operations, expose data, or introduce malware into your environment.
At Adversim, we know healthcare. We’ve secured environments for hospitals, specialty clinics, and healthcare providers of all sizes. Our healthcare cybersecurity services are built to support always-on patient care, strict regulatory compliance, and sensitive medical data protection.
✅ Network Segmentation & Architecture Reviews
We help isolate EMR platforms, medical IoT devices, and guest Wi-Fi networks to limit lateral movement and reduce the impact of a breach
✅ Threat Hunting & Purple Team Exercises
Simulate real-world attacks against clinical and administrative systems. We test your threat detection, response playbooks, and security controls.
✅ Healthcare Compliance Readiness
Our healthcare cybersecurity services support HIPAA, HITECH, and state privacy law requirements—helping your organization pass audits and protect patient data.
✅ Cloud & Infrastructure Risk Assessments
Whether you’re hosting EMR data, patient portals, or telehealth platforms in the cloud, we’ll assess and secure your hybrid or cloud-native infrastructure.
Simulate real-world cyberattacks targeting healthcare organizations—from patient care systems to backend infrastructure. Our adversary simulation services expose weaknesses through red teaming, physical infiltration, and threat-based testing aligned with HIPAA and HHS cybersecurity best practices.
We identify cybersecurity risks across your healthcare organization’s digital ecosystem. Our assessments help you meet HIPAA, HHS, and other regulatory expectations while securing high-value assets like EHR systems, patient portals, medical devices, and third-party integrations.
Build long-term cyber resilience across your healthcare organization’s clinical, administrative, and IT systems. We provide security program development, vCISO services, and training programs tailored to healthcare operations, HIPAA requirements, and internal risk profiles.
Our offensive security testing mimics real-world attacks targeting healthcare systems, staff, and vendors. We identify weaknesses before attackers can exploit them.
We test your internal healthcare infrastructure—clinical systems, administrative networks, medical devices, and back-office systems—to ensure vulnerabilities are uncovered before they can be exploited.
We simulate attacks on EHR platforms, patient portals, third-party integrations, and mobile health applications.
We assess patient and staff wireless networks for segmentation flaws, rogue access points, and risks of lateral movement.
We evaluate patient portals, billing platforms, and telehealth interfaces for security flaws that could impact data privacy or care delivery.
We simulate phishing, vishing, and in-person tactics to test staff awareness and response to social engineering attacks.
We examine your physical security posture—including badge access controls, surveillance blind spots, server room protection, and more.
Our team attempts real-world intrusions into sensitive healthcare areas, from data centers to medication storage, mimicking actual threat actor tactics.
We simulate advanced persistent threat actors targeting healthcare organizations, combining cyber, social, and physical intrusion tactics.
We’re not outsiders. Our team has performed security assessments and penetration tests for major healthcare providers, hospitals, and health tech vendors across the country, giving us firsthand insight into the industry’s complex operational, compliance, and patient care landscape.
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