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Penetration Testing for Healthcare Organizations
We provide Hospitals and healthcare Organizations with pen testing services for HIPAA compliance. We providing network vulnerability mapping, exploitation attempts, social engineering, and real-time cyber threat analysis for Hospital or Healthcare Organizations in North America and the Caribbean.
Why your Healthcare Organization needs a pen test.
Healthcare cloud security has become more important than ever. The healthcare industry has consistently been one of the top targets for hackers and cybercriminals over the past several years. In fact, in a recent study by Ponemon, almost 90% of healthcare organizations had experienced a data breach in the past two years, and a whopping 45% have experienced five or more data breaches in the same period of time.
Additionally, due to strict privacy standards (particularly in the USA with HIPAA), the cost of these breaches is more expensive than in any other vertical. Therefore, it’s critical to take measures to strengthen cyber security for healthcare systems.
CyberHunter is one of the leading healthcare cybersecurity companies that help organizations protect their private and confidential information. Get a quote from us today.
What Type of Pen Test Does Your Hospital or Healthcare Organization Need for HIPAA compliance?
According to the FBI, today’s electronic patient records have become far more valuable to hackers than financial information. Much of this is due to the way healthcare records are being used by cyber criminals (e.g. impersonation of sick patients to obtain prescriptions for opioids) as well as the falling of financial information prices on the dark web. In general, there are two categories of penetration testing or “pen tests” that Hospitals or Healthcare Organizations usually require: customer-driven / compliance-driven, OR penetration tests that attempt to exploit people, process or technology with the objective of breaking into the network and gaining access to digital assets.
Scenario 1 Pen Testing
Customer-Driven or Compliance-Driven
Example: “We have a web application and one of our biggest clients need us to get a 3rd party pen test performed for their risk team”.
This scenario actually describes a vulnerability assessment, followed by a blend of automated and manual pen testing that looks for obvious configuration flaws or vulnerabilities that can be exploited without too much effort. The main goal is to produce a remediation report on the issues that let you harden your website, application or network. This can also be considered a security audit of sorts, particularly when a specific set of metrics are used for compliance measurement (e.g. PCI-DSS compliance) or if we are looking at analyzing the running configuration of a device.
CyberHunter will produce a Penetration Test Report and depending on the needs, couple this with an OWASP report (for web apps), a PCI Compliance report (QSA-Certified or Standard), or an ISO27001/2 report for standard-specific requirements.
Scenario 2 Pen Testing
Breach the Network (Red Team Exercise)
Example: “We are looking to test and improve our overall cybersecurity posture and we need an ethical hacker to try to break into our network.”
This scenario describes a more traditional penetration test. This type of pen test (also called a Red Team exercise) simulates an adversarial role and is a far more realistic way to test the security readiness of an organization. This testing covers exploitation attempts against People, Process, and Technology.
It can involve a significant amount of social engineering and usually triggers active security controls and countermeasures inside the operating environment. These tests will additionally assess internal Blue Team (the defensive team) responsiveness and/or process in the event of an intrusion detection.
Hospitals Are Security’s Biggest Nightmare . The right Pen Test can save your Hospital or Healthcare Organization from being the next headline.
Why Pen testing for a Hospital or Healthcare Organization
Even with such a large target on their heads, we find that healthcare organizations are not keeping pace with best practices in cyber security, nor are they adapting to today’s most advanced and evolving threats. There are other factors that compound these issues, such as a massive proliferation of digital data (patient records) as we all newly deployed IoT and wireless medical devices (real-time metrics). This combination of exponentially increasing data volumes, newly vulnerable network entry points and lack of overall security maturity makes healthcare organizations a juicy target for hackers, particularly with respect to ransomware attacks.
Healthcare Cyber Security Services
Healthcare organizations today need to be focused on data breach and ransomware. CyberHunter can help. Our cyber security services are focused on hardening your network, improving your security posture and protecting your organization from advanced attacks plaguing the healthcare industry – specifically ransomware.
- Penetration Testing (pen testing)
- Network Security Device Audits
- Wi-Fi Pen Testing
- Web Browser – ransomware and malware protection
- Email – ransomware and malware protection
- USB Media – ransomware and malware protection
Four Key Cyber Security Principles for Hospitals or Healthcare Organizations
The following four key principles can help guide healthcare organizations in taking a more proactive stance in combating malware:
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Accept that malware and APTs will breach existing defences.
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Treat endpoints as untrusted until proven otherwise.
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Trust established in an endpoint is both finite and fleeting.
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Validate endpoints as malware free, anytime, anyplace.
Vulnerability Assessments vs. Penetration Tests for Hospitals or Healthcare Organizations?
Vulnerability assessments and penetration testing are terms that are used interchangeably but are ultimately different services. In plain terms, a vulnerability assessment is like a thief making a note of all your points of entry and identifying the locks you have in place. Penetration testing, on the other hand, is actually picking the lock and getting inside — but with permission.
Why Choose CyberHunter for Your Hospital or Healthcare Organization Pen Test ?
- The CyberHunter Pen Test 2.0 methodology leverages the most advanced tools, techniques and procedures in the industry to enumerate, identify and report on your existing security posture.
- We are the only threat assessment solution that can perform an advanced Vulnerability Scan and Pen Test while simultaneously hunting for, and identifying Advanced Persistent Threats that are ALREADY embedded in you network.
- CyberHunter gives you the insight and cyber intelligence you need for your Hospital or Healthcare Organization to be proactive.
BE PROACTIVE.
Trust in a network device is very temporary. Be proactive and ensure you scan, test and hunt on a regular basis.
TRUST NOTHING.
Security teams should NEVER trust an endpoint or server until it can be PROVEN to be trusted.
MALWARE CAN GET IN.
Companies need to prepare and be ready to respond to advanced persistent threats.