John Gomez, founder of Sensato, will join CloudWave as chief technical and security officer.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
CloudWave, an independently managed service and cloud software hosting provider, focuses solely on healthcare. It manages more than 250 hospital environments in the OpSus public and private cloud platforms.
The company’s Cybersecurity Tactics Operations Center (CTOC) already provides continuous monitoring by cybersecurity analysts and incorporates machine learning. According to the announcement, the addition of the Sensato Cybersecurity suite further strengthens the OpSus Cloud Services platform.
It is also important to combine operations to ensure network security and deliver cloud services, including public clouds, private clouds, and now on-premises healthcare technology environments, said CloudWave. unprecedented and aims to provide a seamless, enhanced experience for customers, said CloudWave.
With the acquisition, hospitals can implement a fully managed HIPAA and NIST-compliant cybersecurity program, with end-to-end service and support from a single vendor.
Rich Temple, vice president and CIO at the Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, New Jersey, said: “The Sensato Cybersecurity Department provides a level of healthcare data protection for the hospitals we use. impossible to do on your own.” “You have complete peace of mind knowing that our systems are being monitored and protected by a team of experienced cybersecurity experts.”
He added that IT operations have been greatly simplified with a single provider for cloud-hosted applications delivery and on-premises cybersecurity.
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
In March, CloudWave unveiled a secure data backup platform – OpSus Vault – an offline storage location for protected healthcare data, locked to prevent encryption, modification, and erase. Cloud locations replicate a copy of the cache and store the content in a separate domain, in a secure vault with a fixed storage policy.
Erik Littlejohn, president and CEO of CloudWave, says it’s an important factor in recovering from a ransomware attack because restoring an immutable backup is done without need to pay the ransom. Healthcare IT News in a conversation earlier this year.
While the healthcare industry has primarily invested in reactive security technologies, the frequency of cybercrime is driving hospitals to consider implementing proactive security measures to prevent attacks. crippled like ransomware.
“Resilience used to mean sturdy, but now it means more flexibility. Stretching workflows that rely on backups – like paper and pen – won’t work. Leaders Healthcare IT needs to focus on the speed and flexibility to recover and resume normal operations, and the cloud is a big asset to enable that,” Littlejohn said.
ON PROFILE
“More and more customers are asking CloudWave for responsive services to help prevent and remediate cyberattacks on their on-premises systems in just the past two years,” Littlejohn said in the statement. .
“With the addition of the proprietary, innovative technologies found in the Sensato Cybersecurity suite, coupled with the cyber expertise of the Sensato team, CloudWave will be able to provide customers with a high-level cybersecurity solution without We provide our cloud-based delivery to the base system.”
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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