Industry series: HealthTech 🔎

Over the last decade, software, cloud computing and AI have increasingly been incorporated into healthcare. This has caused healthcare to move to online platforms for consultation, storage of patient data and apps for tracking your health. It has allowed for ​​better care, faster diagnoses, and more efficient operations.

However, with a cloud native approach, there is an increasing number of security challenges organizations must consider. The highly personal information in medical records make them prime targets for identity theft. Thus, healthcare data is up to 20% more valuable to attackers than other types of information

Despite these risks, healthcare organizations often spend less on cybersecurity compared to other sectors. This gap highlights the urgent need for cloud security measures in HealthTech.

A recent case in Finland illustrates the severe consequences of inadequate cybersecurity. In 2023, a clinic's failure to protect patient data led to blackmail attempts against both the clinic and its patients, and eventually highly personal information being leaked to the public. The clinic's former CEO faced criminal charges for neglecting to implement sufficient cybersecurity.

Cloud attacks, like the one against the Finnish clinic, often exploit vulnerabilities already deployed in an organization’s software. Addressing each weakness is inefficient and consumes valuable time. At bifrost, we leverage LSMs to proactively secure your containerized workloads. By monitoring and restricting unfamiliar behavior in your containers, the attack surface of your applications is significantly reduced, keeping your patients and their medical records safe from attackers. 

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