Healthcare
Infrastructure where data breaches and downtime both cost patients
HIPAA and HITRUST certified environments for health systems and life sciences organizations that operate in the most consequential infrastructure environments in the world.
99.99%
Uptime SLA for clinical systems
0
Unencrypted data paths by architecture
< 15min
Recovery point objective
HITRUST
Certified environments
The challenge
Healthcare infrastructure must be simultaneously the most secure and most available
Data breaches cost patients. Downtime costs patients. The engineering standard has to reflect that — and most enterprise infrastructure platforms weren't built to it.
Protected health data at scale
Health systems manage petabytes of PHI across EHRs, imaging systems, lab platforms, and patient portals. A single unencrypted data path or misconfigured access policy is a HIPAA breach — and a patient trust event.
Clinical system availability
EHR downtime during a clinical shift directly impacts patient care. Infrastructure SLAs in healthcare aren't about revenue — they're about outcomes. The reliability standard has to reflect that.
Legacy clinical systems
Many health systems run critical clinical applications on infrastructure that predates modern security architecture. Modernizing without disrupting clinical operations requires a specific methodology.
Ransomware exposure
Healthcare is the most-targeted sector for ransomware. Most successful attacks spread by moving between connected systems — a problem Zero Trust security solves by ensuring no system automatically trusts another.
Our approach
Designed to the healthcare security standard from day one
We don't retrofit compliance onto existing architecture. HIPAA and HITRUST requirements are architectural inputs — designed in before a single resource is provisioned.
HIPAA and HITRUST certified environments
Every environment we build for healthcare clients is designed to HIPAA Security Rule requirements and validated against the HITRUST CSF. Certification isn't a post-deployment exercise — it's an architectural property.
HIPAA · HITRUST CSF · SOC 2 Type II
Zero Trust for clinical networks
We rebuild your security from the ground up. No system automatically trusts another — not clinical systems, not admin systems, not vendor connections. Every connection is continuously checked and verified.
NIST SP 800-207 · isolated by workload type
Zero unencrypted data paths
PHI is encrypted at rest (AES-256), in transit (TLS 1.3), and at every intermediate stage. We architect to ensure there are no exception paths — not even for legacy integrations.
FIPS 140-2 validated encryption
High-availability EHR infrastructure
Multi-zone active-active architectures for EHR and clinical imaging workloads. Failover occurs automatically without clinical workflow interruption. RPO and RTO are contractually defined.
99.99% uptime SLA · recovery point under 15 min
Legacy system modernization
We run legacy and modern clinical systems in parallel during migration. Traffic shifts gradually. Clinical workflows continue uninterrupted. Nothing is decommissioned before the modern replacement is validated.
Zero-disruption clinical migration methodology
Managing third-party vendor access
Healthcare vendor ecosystems are complex and high-risk. We manage vendor agreements, control what third parties can access, and continuously monitor all outside connections into your clinical environment.
Vendor agreement management · full access audit trail
Compliance coverage
Frameworks we design to, not retrofit to
Compliance in healthcare has real consequences. We treat every framework as an architectural constraint — not a checklist applied after the fact.
HIPAA Security Rule
PHI protection requirements
HITRUST CSF
Healthcare information trust framework
SOC 2 Type II
Controls assurance for cloud workloads
HITECH Act
EHR adoption and breach notification
21 CFR Part 11
Life sciences electronic records
ISO 27001
Information security management
NIST CSF
Cybersecurity framework
FedRAMP Moderate
Federal health agency workloads
Use case
Rebuilding security in a health system without disrupting patient care
A large health system needed to stop systems from automatically trusting each other — a serious gap exposed by a near-miss ransomware incident. The constraint: clinical workflows couldn't be interrupted. Pausing operations to make changes wasn't an option.
Read our approachOur approach
We rebuild security from the ground up — no system automatically trusts another, every connection is continuously verified, and all patient data is encrypted. Compliance becomes part of how the system is built, not a box ticked afterward.
Operating a health system or life sciences organization?
Our healthcare infrastructure team understands clinical uptime and PHI protection requirements — and how to satisfy both simultaneously.