Securing Healthcare Systems with Zero Trust & Cloud Security

Challenge:

A leading healthcare provider engaged Intuitive to protect electronic health records (EHR), patient data, and secure cloud workloads while simplifying compliance with HIPPA regulations.

Our Approach:

Intuitive applied Zero Trust principles to secure the cloud infrastructure and align with HIPAA technical safeguards. The architecture focused on ensuring least privilege controls, strong data encryption, cloud network segmentation, and real-time monitoring. In summary, the Intuitive team:

  1. Established least privilege roles and strong authentication by enforcing multi-factor identity verification (MFA) tied to granular, adaptive policies with context-aware access controls to the cloud infrastructure.
  2. Configured infrastructure and workload micro segmentation using layered firewall rules, routing rules and cloud native network isolation features.
  3. Implemented strong data protections by applying data tokenization and redaction of sensitive healthcare data for processing as well as enforcing encryption of all cloud data stores.
  4. Deployed continuous security monitoring and AI-powered anomaly detection using cloud native tools and dashboards to produce a real-time Zero Trust Scorecard for the cloud infrastructure.

Outcome:

Reduced risk of data breaches and minimized impact of compromised accounts – we minimized insider misuse and limited damage from compromised accounts through adaptive access policies that require re-authentication or additional checks when risk factors change.

Enhanced protection of critical systems and sensitive data - we improved the containment of threats and prevented cascading failures in critical systems by implementing micro-segmentation, which creates fine-grained security perimeters around individual resources without requiring massive hardware investments.

Ensured continuous confidentiality and integrity of sensitive healthcare data - Sensitive healthcare data now remains protected throughout its lifecycle, from processing to storage. These data-centric security policies travel with the data, ensuring confidentiality and preventing unauthorized alterations.

Improved compliance and audit capabilities through rapid threat detection and detailed audit logs - Identifying insider threats and compromised accounts using AI detection capabilities streamlines audit processes by continuously logging who accessed patient data and what actions were taken.