Patient Data Doesn't Protect Itself
Healthcare organizations across North America navigate overlapping privacy mandates — HIPAA in the United States, provincial health privacy laws across Canada, and tightening cyber insurance requirements everywhere. We deliver the threat intelligence and external visibility that mid-market healthcare organizations need to meet these obligations across jurisdictions — without building an in-house SOC.
Share of IT budget that healthcare organizations allocate to cybersecurity — roughly one-third of the financial sector benchmark. This chronic underfunding makes healthcare the most breached sector in North America.
Healthcare is under sustained attack across North America. In Canada, the Daixin Team ransomware group hit five southwestern Ontario hospitals through a shared IT provider in 2023 — 516,000 patient records stolen because MFA wasn't enabled on critical systems. SickKids suffered a ransomware attack that delayed lab results and diagnostic imaging. Newfoundland's province-wide health system breach cost $16 million to remediate. LifeLabs exposed 15 million patient records in what remains one of Canada's largest-ever data breaches. In the United States, the 2024 Change Healthcare breach at UnitedHealth Group compromised approximately 100 million patient records — the largest healthcare breach in US history — disrupting claims processing nationwide for weeks. CommonSpirit Health's ransomware attack affected facilities across multiple states. Ransomware groups actively target healthcare because patient care urgency increases the likelihood of ransom payment. Mid-market organizations — regional hospitals, community health centers, multi-location clinic groups — are the most vulnerable. They face the same sophisticated threats as large health systems but typically have fewer than two dedicated security staff.
Regulatory Compliance
Our services align with and support the regulatory frameworks that govern healthcare.
HIPAA (US)
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requires covered entities and business associates to implement administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for protected health information. The Security Rule mandates risk assessments, access controls, audit controls, and breach notification within 60 days. OCR enforcement has intensified with over $140 million in HIPAA penalties since inception. Our dark web monitoring detects compromised PHI and stolen credentials, EASM identifies exposed health IT assets, and incident alerting supports the breach detection and notification timeline HIPAA demands.
PHIPA (Ontario, Canada)
Ontario's Personal Health Information Protection Act imposes penalties up to $500,000 per organization and mandates electronic audit logs, access controls, and breach notification 'at the first reasonable opportunity.' The IPC issued its first-ever administrative monetary penalty in Decision 298 in September 2025 — a clinic with zero privacy policies and no breach response protocol. Our managed monitoring provides the continuous oversight required to meet PHIPA's notification standard and demonstrate compliance to the IPC.
Provincial Health Privacy Laws
Alberta's Health Information Act, Quebec's Law 25 (with penalties up to $25 million or 4% of global turnover), and BC's PIPA all impose health data protection requirements with varying breach notification obligations. Multi-province healthcare organizations face overlapping compliance mandates across jurisdictions. Our platform provides unified monitoring and alerting that supports compliance reporting regardless of which provincial framework applies.
PIPEDA & US State Privacy Laws
Federal and state or provincial privacy laws layer additional obligations for healthcare organizations handling personal information beyond clinical records — employee data, donor information, research participant records. Breach notification timelines vary by jurisdiction: PIPEDA requires notification of breaches involving real risk of significant harm, while US state laws impose timelines ranging from 30 to 90 days. Our monitoring and incident alerting support compliance across these varied requirements.
Bill 194 & Bill C-26
Ontario's Bill 194, in force since July 2025, imposes mandatory breach reporting and privacy impact assessments on public hospitals and broader public sector institutions. Federal Bill C-26 and the Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act designate healthcare as critical infrastructure with new cybersecurity obligations. These legislative changes are driving urgency across the Canadian healthcare sector to implement continuous monitoring and documented incident response capabilities.
Cyber Insurance Requirements
Cyber insurers now require continuous monitoring, multi-factor authentication, endpoint detection, and documented incident response plans as conditions of coverage. Healthcare organizations that cannot demonstrate these controls face premium increases of 50–100% or outright coverage denial. Our managed service provides the continuous monitoring evidence and incident response documentation that insurers require — turning security investment into measurable insurance cost reduction.
How We Help
Tailored security solutions for healthcare organizations.
Hospital & Health System Protection
Regional hospitals, clinic groups, community health centers, and health authorities that can't staff a 24/7 SOC need managed security that understands healthcare. We provide dark web monitoring for patient data leaks and stolen clinician credentials, health-sector threat actor tracking, and continuous alerting — purpose-built for organizations with limited security staff facing enterprise-grade threats.
Dark Web Health Intelligence
We monitor criminal marketplaces and forums for stolen patient records, compromised clinician credentials, EHR and EMR login sales, and health-sector ransomware group activity. When your organization's patient data or staff credentials appear on the dark web, you receive an immediate alert with full context — what was found, the severity, and specific actions to contain the exposure before patient care is impacted.
External Attack Surface Monitoring
Continuous discovery and monitoring of internet-facing assets: patient portals, telehealth platforms, lab result systems, connected medical device interfaces, and cloud-hosted EHR instances. We identify exposed services, certificate weaknesses, and misconfigurations across your digital footprint — generating compliance evidence that demonstrates continuous external visibility to regulators and insurers.
Third-Party & Vendor Risk
Healthcare relies on shared IT providers, EHR vendors, lab systems, pharmacy networks, and billing platforms. The 2023 Ontario hospital breach was enabled through a shared IT provider — a single point of failure affecting five hospitals. We monitor vendor security posture, breach exposure, and supply chain vulnerabilities across your third-party ecosystem, providing early warning before a vendor compromise becomes your breach.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our capabilities map directly to HIPAA Security Rule requirements. For risk assessment, our external attack surface monitoring continuously identifies exposed health IT assets and vulnerabilities. For access monitoring, our dark web surveillance detects compromised credentials that could enable unauthorized PHI access. For breach detection, our platform provides real-time alerting that supports HIPAA's 60-day breach notification timeline. For audit documentation, we provide continuous compliance evidence and incident reporting. We are not a HIPAA compliance auditor, but our continuous monitoring directly supports the technical safeguards HIPAA requires.
Yes. Our managed monitoring maps directly to PHIPA's core requirements: electronic audit log oversight, access control monitoring, and breach detection that enables notification 'at the first reasonable opportunity.' The IPC's Decision 298 in September 2025 demonstrated that organizations without continuous monitoring and documented privacy programs face real enforcement consequences — the clinic involved had zero privacy policies and no breach response protocol. Our service provides the 24/7 monitoring capability that makes PHIPA's notification standard achievable.
Yes, specifically. Mid-market healthcare organizations — regional hospitals with 100 to 500 beds, community health centers, multi-location clinic groups — are our primary focus. Most have fewer than two dedicated security staff, yet face the same threat actors targeting major health systems. Our managed service provides the continuous monitoring, threat intelligence, and incident alerting these organizations need without the $700,000 to $1.5 million annual cost of building an in-house SOC.
You receive an immediate alert with full context: what was found, where it was detected, the assessed severity, and specific remediation steps. For findings that may trigger reporting obligations — HIPAA's 60-day window, PHIPA's 'first reasonable opportunity' standard, or provincial notification requirements — we provide evidence packages and timeline documentation to support your compliance reporting workflows. Early detection is critical: the Ontario hospital breach involved 516,000 records that circulated on criminal marketplaces before the organization was aware.
Ransomware groups don't deploy encryption the day they gain access. They typically spend 14 to 30 days inside a network — escalating privileges, identifying critical systems, and exfiltrating data before launching the attack. During this window, access brokers often sell initial network access on dark web marketplaces and forums. Our platform monitors these criminal marketplaces for early indicators that your organization is being targeted — giving you a critical window to respond before ransomware disrupts patient care.