Healthcare Security

Agentic detection.
Human command.

In a hospital, the wrong automated action isn't a mistake. It's a patient.

The industry is racing toward full autonomous response. We made a different choice, deliberately. Personam correlates the evidence, identifies the affected entities, and scores the threat. Your team pulls the trigger.

$7.42M
Average cost of a healthcare data breach, highest of any industry for 14 consecutive years
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025
67%
Of healthcare organizations hit by ransomware in the past year
Sophos State of Ransomware in Healthcare
Day 1
Visibility from first packet: managed, unmanaged, IoT, and clinical devices included
Personam Platform
Why This Environment Is Different

Why traditional security
struggles in healthcare.

Most security platforms were built for enterprise IT environments, managed endpoints, consistent identities, patchable systems. Hospitals are something else entirely. These are the specific realities that break credential-based and signature-based tools.

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Shared credentials

Nurses share workstation logins. Shift-based workflows mean multiple people authenticate as the same user. Tools that rely on identity see nothing wrong.

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Clinical devices

MRI machines, infusion pumps, ventilators, they can't run endpoint agents, can't be safely scanned, and can't be taken offline to patch. Many run end-of-life systems that cannot be patched.

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Legacy operating systems

Clinical systems from vendors who no longer exist. Custom software tied to specific OS versions. Infrastructure nobody is allowed to touch because the liability outweighs the risk.

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Vendor & biomedical access

Dozens of third-party vendors connect to biomedical systems, HVAC, and facility controls. Most connect through shared or default credentials that nobody has changed in years.

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Flat, interconnected networks

Clinical, administrative, research, and facilities infrastructure often sit on the same network. An attacker who gets in anywhere can reach everything, fast.

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Zero tolerance for downtime

Attackers know it too. Security teams can't quarantine a device mid-procedure. Every response decision has a patient on the other side. That asymmetry is leverage.

Personam was built for these realities.

Not adapted from an enterprise tool. Not bolted onto an EDR. Built from first principles for the environments where identity can't be trusted, devices can't run agents, and the wrong automated action has real consequences.

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The Clinical Security Gap

Healthcare networks were
never built for zero trust.

Nurses share workstation logins. MRI machines run on legacy credentials. Every tool that relies on identity to detect threats is effectively blind in your environment.

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Shared credentials are standard practice

Clinical workflows depend on shared logins across devices, departments, and shifts. Identity-based security can't distinguish a nurse from an attacker using the same account.

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Connected clinical devices expand the attack surface

Biomedical equipment, IoT sensors, and networked imaging systems rarely support endpoint agents. Most security platforms simply don't see them.

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Security teams are stretched thin by design

Regional health systems dedicate every possible resource to patient care. A lean IT team shouldn't mean a vulnerable network.

The network doesn't lie.

You have to put packets on the network to exfiltrate data. To move laterally. To abuse a compromised account. That's how Personam sees the behavior identity-based tools miss.

Shared credential, evaluated as one entity Illustrative
WS‑CLIN‑04 · shared clinical login
Used by the day‑shift team. Personam profiles the credential itself, not the people behind it.
Mon 09:58Charting, ward systemsIn family
Tue 10:14Charting, imaging retrieval, ward systemsIn family
Wed 11:02Charting, medication systemsIn family
Wed 13:20Charting, imaging retrieval, lab resultsIn family
Thu 13:37Charting, imaging retrievalIn family
Thu 13:52Reached a file share no session on this credential has touchedOut of family
Identity sees one authorized login all week. Personam sees every session and the behavior that does not belong.
The flagged session carries the device, the time, and what it reached, so your team knows exactly where to start. Deviation can come from one dimension far out of family or several quietly off at once. Illustrative representation of Personam's Behavior Drive.
Why Personam

Purpose-built for clinical environments.

Personam was designed for networks where identity can't be trusted and device coverage can't have gaps. No agents, no signatures, no rules.

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Behavior Drive

Personam’s behavioral intelligence engine, continuously mapping your entire hospital network. 8,000+ entities across Clinical, Admin, Data Center, and IoT zones. Every device profiled from its first packet. Every deviation visible the moment it drifts past tolerance.

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The Shared Credential Problem, Solved

When a nurse and an attacker use the same workstation login, Personam doesn't trust the credential, it evaluates the behavior. Which resources, what pattern, at what time, against what every peer device does. The network doesn't lie.

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The Unagentable Blind Spot, Solved

480 infusion pumps. 380 patient monitors. 40 ventilators. 820 HVAC sensors. Devices that cannot host an agent are profiled from their first packet, with nothing installed on them.

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No Payload Decryption

Network metadata only. No decryption, no PHI access. Your patient data stays inside your walls. HIPAA-aligned by architecture, not by afterthought.

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No Rule Fired

Personam detects what no rule could anticipate, because it learned what normal looks like on your specific network. No signatures to update. No pretrained models to tune. Discovery in hours. Continuous learning from there.

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No Autonomous Action

Personam assembles the case: which devices, which credentials, which entities are affected, and how severe it is. Your team decides what happens next.

Behavior Drive

A living map of your entire hospital network.Illustrative

Not a dashboard. Not a report. A continuously evolving behavioral model of every entity on your network, organized by peer group, zone, and system. Discovered, not configured.

Clinical ZoneZ-CLI
480Infusion Pumps
380Patient Monitors
40Ventilators
1,800EHR Sessions
+ICU, ED, Surgical, Pharmacy, Lab
Administrative ZoneZ-ADM
220Admin Workstations
14C-Suite Workstations
+Finance, Billing, HR, Legal, Compliance
Data CenterZ-DC
44Legacy Systems
8Domain Controllers
+Databases, App Servers, Backup
Infrastructure IoTZ-IOT
820HVAC Sensors
1,200VoIP Phones
180Badge Readers
+Elevators, Generators
How It Works

From network tap to prioritized threat.
No agents, no rules, no noise.

Discovery

Connect & Begin

Hour 0. One network tap. Personam begins baselining immediately, no agents, no firewall changes. Your team won't feel it go in.

Behavioral Learning

Build the Map

Every monitored entity profiled against its own history and against its behavioral family, ICU nurses, infusion pumps, billing workstations, badge readers. Organization identity discovered, not configured.

Deviation Detected

No Rule Fired

The map shows what behavior reveals. A server backing up somewhere the rest of its family never does. A senior insider staging client material at 3am. Both caught mid-creep.

Decision

Your Call

Personam assembles the case: devices, credentials, affected entities, severity. Your team reviews and decides. The AI investigated. You respond.

Clinical Use Cases

The threats we catch that others don't.

Healthcare faces a unique combination of threat vectors. Personam was built to address each one without adding burden to your clinical or IT teams.

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Ransomware, Early Detection

Ransomware moves laterally for days before encrypting. Personam detects the anomalous behavior during reconnaissance, before a single file is locked.

Ransomware Defense
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Insider PHI Theft

Three weeks of off-baseline file access, culminating in 4.2GB staged to external storage, patient records, contracts, billing. Personam flagged the pattern weeks before the final exfiltration. This is an HR case before an IT case. Your legal team needs to know before your IT team acts.

Insider Threat
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Compromised Clinical Workstations

Shared nurse station terminals monitored at the session level. Personam detects the moment a compromised session acts differently than thousands of prior sessions on the same machine.

Shared Credentials
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Rogue or Compromised Medical Devices

All biomedical equipment covered through network behavior monitoring. No agent, no firmware access required.

IoT / Medical Devices
Compliance

HIPAA, HITECH, and beyond.

Personam maps directly to the continuous monitoring, anomalous activity detection, and access control requirements your organization needs to demonstrate compliance.

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Continuous Network Monitoring

The HIPAA Security Rule addresses monitoring of access to electronic PHI. Personam provides 24/7 behavioral monitoring across every device, including unagentable clinical devices that HHS 405(d) specifically flags as an unmonitored risk category.

Anomalous Activity Detection

HIPAA ยง164.312(b) requires detecting activity inconsistent with authorized access. Personam's behavioral baseline is purpose-built to satisfy this requirement, including shared credential environments.

Audit Trail & Incident Evidence

Every detected anomaly logged with full context, giving your compliance and legal teams the documentation they need when it matters most.

Deployment

Running in hours. Not weeks.

No rip-and-replace, no agent rollout, no impact to clinical operations. Designed for lean IT teams who can't afford a months-long deployment project.

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Mirror a network port

One tap or SPAN port. No changes to existing infrastructure.

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Provision the Detector

Configuration takes minutes. Fully on-premise deployment is available where zero telemetry egress is required.

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Learning begins immediately

Behavioral baselines start building from the first packet. Initial detection capability within hours.

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Your team stays in control

Alerts and the full investigation surface in your dashboard. Your analysts decide. Personam does not act on its own.

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From network tap to live network visibility
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Endpoint agents to deploy across your clinical device fleet
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Rules to configure, signatures to maintain, or tuning required
24/7
Continuous monitoring. Always learning, always vigilant.
Validation

Proven in the environments that demand the most.

In live adversarial exercises, Personam identified lateral movement across shared clinical credentials through behavioral change rather than a signature or a manually written rule.
Live Exercise ValidationLive Adversarial Exercise
Behavioral deviation detection caught a coordinated insider threat mid-execution, identifying the pattern across shared accounts weeks before the final exfiltration event.
Insider Threat Case StudyEnterprise Security Deployment
Built for U.S. government insider threat requirements, where the cost of a missed detection is measured in consequences rather than dollars. Healthcare inherited an architecture designed for that standard.
Government OriginsU.S. Government Infrastructure

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