Armorstack Healthcare
Security that respects the clinical workflow.
Because patient safety is the real attack surface.
Hospitals, ambulatory clinics, specialty practices, long-term care, behavioral health, and FQHCs — an Armorstack practice built around HIPAA, accreditation, CMS, and state reporting requirements, the EMR workflows your clinicians actually use, and the operational reality that a ransomware event in a hospital is a mass-casualty event.
$10.9M
Avg. healthcare breach cost
386%
Higher than cross-industry avg
100+
Technical experts on staff
24/7
SOC monitoring & response
Five Practice Areas
Healthcare-Specific Capabilities
Five integrated practice areas built around patient safety and clinical workflow continuity. HIPAA compliance is the floor, not the ceiling.
vCISO & HIPAA Advisory
Board-ready risk reporting, OCR audit prep, breach notification workflows, and ongoing HIPAA Security Rule alignment. Annual risk analysis built into the engagement.
Clinical IT Operations
EMR environments (e.g. Epic, Oracle Health / Cerner, Meditech) and clinical application interfaces — endpoint integrity (including MIoT), network segmentation, identity governance across all planes, and workflow-aware change management.
SOC, MDR & Threat Hunting
24/7 SOC monitoring tuned for clinical environments — ransomware kill chains, medical-device anomaly detection, and post-breach forensics with SLAs that match patient-safety windows.
Campus Security & Nurse Call
Access control, video surveillance, fire alarm monitoring, and nurse-call integration under one CITADEL portfolio. Cyber-physical convergence with single-pane-of-glass visibility.
AI & Clinical Decision Support
Shadow AI discovery for clinical environments, prompt-injection monitoring on AI-augmented EHR workflows, and NIST AI RMF alignment for FDA SaMD-classified clinical decision tools.
The Healthcare Reality
A ransomware event in a hospital is a mass-casualty event.
The clinical workflow doesn’t pause for an incident. ED diversions, surgical postponements, and downtime documentation cascade into longer length-of-stay, missed sepsis bundles, and worse patient outcomes. Joint Commission and CMS already know that — the regulatory frameworks are catching up to the clinical reality.
Armorstack runs a healthcare-aware practice. Our SOC analysts know what an authorized Epic SQL connection looks like and what a compromised one looks like. Our network engineers know which biomed VLANs feed PACS and which feed building automation. Our compliance leads know that an OCR investigation begins on the day of the breach, not the day of the audit letter.
Our job is to catch incidents in the seconds-to-minutes window where the OR keeps running — not the hours-to-days window where elective procedures stop.
“A hospital’s threat model isn’t about data — it’s about whether an unstable patient gets the right meds at the right time. We build security programs that start with patient safety and work outward.”
— David Reynolds
VP, VERITY Healthcare Practice
Frameworks We Map & Audit Against
The compliance stack, end-to-end.
Every framework that touches a healthcare environment — mapped, audited, and continuously monitored under one accountable contract.
HIPAA Security & Privacy
Security Rule, Privacy Rule, and Breach Notification Rule. Annual risk analysis, OCR audit prep, and BAA portfolio management.
HITRUST CSF
r2 and i1 assessments mapped to HIPAA + HITECH + NIST. Used by the largest health systems and payers.
NIST 800-66
HHS-endorsed implementation guide for HIPAA Security Rule. Control-by-control alignment for covered entities.
NIST CSF 2.0
Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover, Govern. The cross-walk standard for cyber maturity reporting.
Joint Commission
IM, EM, EC, and LD chapter alignment. Tracer methodology readiness and downtime-procedure validation.
CMS Conditions of Participation
CoP and CoC alignment for hospitals, CAH, ASC, HHA, hospice, and SNF. Survey-readiness and corrective-action playbooks.
42 CFR Part 2
SUD record protections beyond HIPAA. Consent management and disclosure tracking for behavioral-health and SUD treatment programs.
FDA Pre-Market Cyber
Premarket Section 524B(b) cybersecurity submissions for SaMD and connected medical devices. SBOM and threat-model deliverables.
NIST AI RMF
GOVERN-MAP-MEASURE-MANAGE for clinical AI and CDS. Shadow-AI discovery and FDA SaMD overlap.
SOC 2 Type II
Security, Availability, Confidentiality, and Privacy trust services. Annual audit support for healthcare SaaS and payer-facing platforms.
Community Enhanced
An ever-changing list of frameworks, benchmarks, standards, and crosswalks — driven by governments, accreditation organizations (e.g., Joint Commission, DNV), and clinical standards bodies. Armorstack incorporates every community edition and makes them available to all clients.
Care Settings We Serve
Across the continuum of care.
From acute-care towers to community clinics — security and compliance built around the workflows clinicians actually use.
Acute-Care Hospitals
Tertiary and community hospitals running Epic or Oracle Health. SOC tuning for OR, ED, and ICU workflow continuity.
Ambulatory Surgery Centers
Single-day surgical environments — AAAHC and Joint Commission ASC alignment. PACS and anesthesia-record system hardening.
Specialty Clinics
Cardiology, oncology, orthopedic, ophthalmology, and dental groups. Specialty-EHR integration with payer portals.
Long-Term & Skilled Nursing
SNF, nursing homes, and post-acute. CMS Five-Star alignment. Resident-record protection and downtime documentation.
Behavioral Health
42 CFR Part 2 environments — SUD, mental health, dual-diagnosis. Crisis-line integration and consent-driven disclosure tracking.
FQHCs & CMHCs
Federally Qualified Health Centers and Community Mental Health. HRSA Sliding-Fee documentation and UDS-reporting infrastructure.
CBRF & Assisted Living
Community-based residential and assisted living. Resident-rights compliance and incident-reporting platforms.
Imaging & Diagnostics
Free-standing imaging, lab, and pathology. PACS, RIS, LIS, and HL7 message-bus monitoring with chain-of-custody for evidence.
Multi-Specialty Groups
Independent physician associations and clinically-integrated networks. Cross-specialty identity governance and shared-EHR architectures.
Healthcare deserves a security practice that starts with patient safety.
Bring your CMIO, CIO, and Compliance Officer. We map the highest-risk gaps to the fastest-moving controls — in 60 minutes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Armorstack work with Epic and Cerner (Oracle Health) environments?
Yes. Armorstack has deep experience with both Epic and Oracle Health (Cerner) environments. SENTRY’s SOC operates Epic-aware and Cerner-aware monitoring rules; our clinical IT practice supports the workflow-sensitive operating posture both environments require. Armorstack engagements typically include explicit Epic or Cerner reference architecture in the security program design.
How does Armorstack handle HIPAA compliance and PHI protection?
Armorstack’s VERITY practice delivers HIPAA Security Rule and Privacy Rule advisory, including ongoing risk analysis, policy development, audit preparation, and Breach Notification Rule readiness. SENTRY operates a HIPAA-aligned 24/7 SOC with PHI-aware DLP rules, encrypted incident response, and HITRUST CSF-aligned operational controls.
Can Armorstack support clinical AI deployments safely?
Yes. Armorstack’s AI Adoption Security Framework was built specifically for organizations adopting clinical decision support, scribing, and AI-augmented diagnostics. The framework’s five pillars include shadow-AI discovery (identifying clinical-AI tools touching PHI), NIST AI RMF risk classification, observability instrumentation, governance and policy work, and quarterly adversarial validation. Healthcare is one of the framework’s primary verticals.
What regulatory frameworks does Armorstack map healthcare clients against?
Armorstack maps healthcare clients against the full HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules, HITRUST CSF, NIST 800-66 (HIPAA Security Rule guidance), NIST CSF 2.0, Joint Commission information management standards, CMS Conditions of Participation IT requirements, 42 CFR Part 2 (substance use disorder records), FDA Pre-Market Cybersecurity (medical device manufacturers), NIST AI RMF (clinical AI), and SOC 2 Type II for vendor relationships.
Does Armorstack handle physical security for healthcare campuses?
Yes. CITADEL delivers access control, video surveillance with AI analytics, nurse call integration, infant protection, wander management, and visitor management across hospital campuses, ambulatory facilities, and senior living environments. CITADEL is designed to integrate with clinical workflow systems and to feed physical telemetry into the same SOC view that monitors cyber events.
What care settings does Armorstack serve?
Armorstack serves acute-care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, specialty clinics, long-term and skilled nursing facilities, behavioral health organizations, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and community mental health centers (CMHCs), community-based residential facilities (CBRFs) and assisted living, imaging and diagnostics centers, and multi-specialty physician groups.
How does Armorstack handle ransomware risk in healthcare?
Armorstack treats ransomware in healthcare as a patient safety event, not just an IT event. SENTRY’s healthcare incident response posture includes pre-staged isolation playbooks, downtime procedure coordination with clinical operations leadership, ransom negotiation guidance through vetted partners, and post-event regulatory notification support. The 24/7 SOC posture is designed to detect and contain ransomware in clinical environments before it reaches PHI-bearing systems.
Can Armorstack provide a free 30-day AI Risk Assessment for our hospital?
Yes. Armorstack is offering a no-cost 30-day AI Risk Assessment to the first 50 qualifying mid-market organizations — healthcare systems are explicitly eligible. The assessment produces a shadow-AI inventory, NIST AI RMF risk classification (cross-referenced to HIPAA obligations), an observability-gap analysis against your existing SIEM and tooling, and a board-ready summary. Apply at armorstack.ai/ai-risk-assessment/.