Healthcare organizations are often targets for cyberattacks because of the high-value information they possess including, protected health information (PHI), financial information (credit card and banking details), personally identifiable information (PII), and even intellectual property at research hospitals.
According to a senior advisor for cybersecurity and risk for the American Hospital Association, stolen health records may sell up to 10 times or more than stolen credit card numbers on the dark web.
Ransomware, phishing, and hacking account for the vast majority of breaches and can lead to critical downtime and potentially put patient outcomes at risk. Amid this landscape, traditional vulnerability scans and periodic risk assessments aren’t enough. Healthcare organizations need continuous, data-driven visibility, prioritization, and remediation—and that’s where an Exposure Assessment Platform (EAP) can help.
Gain Visibility of Your Asset Inventory Across Your Environment
Healthcare environments are sprawling: EHRs, medical IoT devices, cloud services, and third-party vendors all create a broad attack surface.
An Exposure Assessment Platform continuously discovers and inventories assets from on-prem servers to cloud, connected devices, and more—providing security teams a single source of truth about their asset inventory and the relationships between those assets.
Break down the silos from disparate tech tools and gain a contextual understanding of each asset’s relationships, ownership, and security coverage with an EAP.
Prioritize Exposures That Pose the Biggest Patient and Operational Risk
Not all vulnerabilities are equal. A misconfigured printer matters far less than a flaw affecting an EHR backend.
An EAP integrates with all of your vulnerability sources to discover the full scope of your exposures—missing security controls, misconfigurations, CVEs, and cloud—and reveal hidden risks.
This enables security teams to prioritize vulnerabilities on systems that directly impact patient care including EHR, PACS, lab systems, and pharmacy applications. An EAP can help to ensure remediation efforts are focused on protecting clinical operations first.
Close the Loop by Ensuring Exposures are Efficiently Remediated
Healthcare security teams are often submitting remediation tickets, but seeing a closed ticket doesn’t guarantee the vulnerability was resolved.
An EAP can validate remediation through telemetry, verify and track completion, and monitor the state of remediation actions over time.
This closed-loop validation supports audit readiness, ensures remediation activities align with risk, and enables measurable exposure reduction.
Demonstrate HIPAA Security Rule Compliance
The healthcare compliance framework demands evidence of continuous risk management. With an EAP, security teams at healthcare organizations can:
- Maintain an accurate asset inventory
- Document security risk and analysis
- Track vulnerability remediation and patch management
- Automate evidence collection across environments
- Generate reporting on exposures, remediation, and compliance progress
- Demonstrate ongoing risk reduction
Present Clear Risk Metrics That Matter
Healthcare executives and boards must balance cybersecurity investments with patient care, budgets, and operational priorities.
Rather than simply reporting on vulnerability volume, an Exposure Assessment Platform can show how exposures are being addressed and overall risk is being reduced. Report on metrics such as mean time to remediation (MTTR), patch efficacy, week-over-week change in exposure reduction, and more to show how the security program is progressing.
Move From Reactive to Proactive Security
The 2025 Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report Healthcare Snapshot states “the exploitation of vulnerabilities has seen another year of growth as an initial access vector for breaches, reaching 20%.”
Healthcare organizations will continue to be prime targets for cyberattacks due to the high-value information they possess. With 12,195 confirmed breaches in the period Nov 1, 2023, and Oct 31, 2024 (as noted in the Verizon DBIR Healthcare Snapshot), healthcare security teams need to be on the offensive.
The Sevco Exposure Assessment Platform helps healthcare organizations shift from reactive firefighting to proactive risk reduction — seeing exposures sooner, prioritizing what truly matters, and verifying that risk stays reduced over time.
“Sevco’s ability to report believable metrics across the entire vulnerability lifecycle is powerful and utterly unique. A closed ticket doesn’t mean a vulnerability was actually fixed. Sevco surfaces those challenges, allowing teams to collaborate across departments to continuously improve our security posture and mature operations.”
Jeffrey M. Vinson Sr. | Former CISO, Harris Health
Schedule a demo with Sevco today and see how we can address your healthcare security challenges.