Securing Healthcare’s Frontlines

Healthcare organizations face a distinct challenge when it comes to cybersecurity. The systems they rely on are complex, often a mix of legacy technologies and modern cloud infrastructure. The data they protect is highly sensitive, governed by strict regulations, and often targeted by attackers. And while the cost of downtime is a financial burden, it can disrupt care and compromise patient safety.

Securonix, a provider of cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM), is working with healthcare institutions to address these challenges. Its Unified Defense SIEM, powered by agentic AI and deployable on Amazon Web Services (AWS), gives teams the tools to respond more quickly to threats, make better use of their existing data, and adapt their defenses in real time.

One example of this approach in action is Alberta Health Services (AHS), Canada’s largest provincial healthcare provider. With over 650 facilities, a diverse mix of clinical environments, and millions of patient records, AHS needed a solution that could scale, simplify investigations, and provide clearer context across a complex infrastructure.

"We needed a solution that could scale across our environment and give us visibility across every vector," said a representative from Alberta Health. "With Securonix, we reduced false positives by 90%, improved time to detect, and gained the AI-driven insights we need to stay ahead of sophisticated threats."

The outcomes included improvements in investigation speed and a reduction in noise, as well as an increased ability to understand the intent behind certain behaviors. According to VentureBeat, Alberta Health avoided cyberattack-related costs that could have reached $600,000 per hour by detecting and responding to threats before they impacted operations.

Tailored for Healthcare Environments

Cybersecurity in healthcare is shaped by unique constraints:

• Legacy applications and medical devices that cannot always be patched or monitored
• High employee turnover, with broad and shifting access privileges
• Strict regulatory obligations, such as HIPAA, PHIPA, and GDPR
• Operational demands that prioritize system uptime over downtime for maintenance

We designed our platform to work within these constraints and push healthcare companies ahead of an evolving threat landscape. This allows security teams to:

• Search up to 365 days of data without rehydration delays
• Detect identity misuse and credential anomalies using behavioral analytics
• Automate investigation and triage using modular AI agents
• Integrate with AWS, Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs), IoT devices, and cloud-based tools for broader visibility

With AWS as its foundation, the Unified Defense SIEM can easily scale and maintain uptime and high performance during high demand periods.

"Healthcare doesn’t have time to guess," said Simon Hunt, Chief Product Officer at Securonix. "We built explainability into our AI models so that every decision can be understood and verified."

Adapting to a Changing Threat Landscape

The nature of healthcare security threats has shifted. It’s not just ransomware or phishing anymore. Insider risks, cloud misconfigurations, and misuse of elevated privileges all play a role. An agentic AI approach, which includes modular AI agents for detecting, triaging, and responding to activity, gives teams flexibility in how they monitor and respond.

Securonix agents:

• Surface patterns in behavioral data that might indicate misuse
• Reduce time spent reviewing false positives
• Provide context to help analysts understand the nature and urgency of an event
• Support investigations across distributed systems, including hybrid environments

For healthcare systems dealing with staffing shortages and increasing cyber pressure, this kind of support can be the difference between catching an issue early or dealing with its consequences later.

Building a Foundation for Long-Term Security

The goal for many healthcare security teams is not just real-time response, but long-term resilience. That means being able to scale their capabilities without burning out staff, while also maintaining audit readiness, regulatory compliance, and operational continuity.

We address these goals through:

• Reduced analyst workload and alert volume
• Faster mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
• Simplified compliance reporting through consolidated data views
• Integration with existing security tooling to preserve prior investments

Healthcare organizations also benefit from content-as-a-service and built-in detection packs tailored to healthcare-specific threat scenarios, which reduces the burden on internal engineering resources.

Looking Ahead

For hospitals, clinics, and healthcare networks, cybersecurity is a core operational requirement. The ability to detect an insider threat before patient data is exposed or respond to a phishing campaign before systems are encrypted, directly impacts care delivery.

Securonix’s role in this space is focused on support, not disruption, providing tools that fit the reality of healthcare and help teams adapt without adding more complexity.

Cybersecurity is now an essential part of healthcare infrastructure. And platforms like Securonix are helping the industry move toward a future where security, performance, and patient trust can all coexist.