Cybersecurity for Healthcare Organizations
Built by a security engineer who supported network infrastructure inside Brooke Army Medical Center, the Department of Defense's largest military hospital.
Why healthcare
Healthcare is the most attacked industry in the United States. The 2024 Change Healthcare ransomware attack disrupted pharmacy and claims processing for months and exposed the protected health information of over 100 million Americans — a figure UnitedHealth has revised upward over time. The trend isn't reversing — healthcare data is more valuable on criminal markets than financial data, and healthcare environments are more difficult to secure than most other sectors.
Small and mid-sized healthcare organizations face the same threat landscape as large hospital systems with a fraction of the security resources. Your IT team is small. Your budget is squeezed. Your EHR vendor handles some of it but not all of it. Your cyber insurance carrier wants more. Your compliance with HIPAA's Security Rule is uncertain.
What VALO brings
Our principal spent years securing the network infrastructure of Brooke Army Medical Center as a civilian network security engineer. From there, work at a state health agency added public health and population health context. We are not an MSP that read a HIPAA pamphlet. We have operated inside healthcare environments under regulatory pressure.
Common engagements
A documented risk analysis, gap assessment, policy foundation, and remediation roadmap aligned to HHS Office for Civil Rights expectations.
When an incident has occurred — ransomware, inadvertent disclosure, lost laptop, business associate breach — we support the breach risk assessment, OCR reporting, and corrective action plan.
Ongoing security program ownership for clinics and practices without dedicated security staff.
Network segmentation and access control for medical devices, infusion pumps, imaging systems, and other clinical technology with weak built-in security.
Translation of underwriter security questionnaires into honest, defensible answers and remediation work where the answers aren't yet "yes."
Who VALO serves in healthcare
Independent medical practices. Behavioral and mental health practices. Ambulatory surgery centers. Dental groups. Dermatology, ophthalmology, and other specialty practices. Healthcare-adjacent SaaS and software companies. Medical billing companies. Healthcare staffing companies. Allied health and therapy practices.
Generally between 10 and 500 employees, with one or more covered entity or business associate relationships.
Who VALO doesn't serve
Large hospital systems with a full internal CISO function and dedicated security teams. They don't need us, and we're not the right fit for that scale.
Case studies
Case studies coming soon — pending client permission to publish.
Schedule a healthcare security conversation.
We'll discuss your HIPAA exposure, your current IT support structure, and what a realistic security program looks like for your practice or organization.
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