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By the Numbers

$7.42M
Average cost of a healthcare data breach, the highest of any industry.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025
279 Days
Average time for healthcare organizations to identify and contain a breach.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025
93%
of healthcare organizations have experienced at least one cyberattack in the past 12 months.
Ponemon Institute 2025 Healthcare Cyber Insecurity Study
74%
of healthcare IT professionals report cybersecurity hiring as a significant workforce challenge.
HIMSS workforce research reported by Chief Healthcare Executive

The Healthcare Cybersecurity Challenge

Managed Extended Detection and Response (XDR) provides support for healthcare organizations with IT resource limitations. Healthcare IT and security teams are being asked to protect highly complex environments with limited resources. They must secure electronic health records, medical devices, hybrid cloud platforms, remote users, third-party connections, clinical applications, and expanding digital health initiatives while maintaining uptime for patient care delivery.
  The Challenge How Managed XDR Solves for It
Alert fatigue Teams are overwhelmed by security alerts, making it harder to separate real incidents from noise. Correlates signals across tools and prioritizes high-fidelity alerts for faster action.
Staffing gaps Healthcare organizations often struggle to hire and retain experienced cybersecurity professionals. Extends the internal team with 24x7 analyst support without building a full in-house SOC.
Limited after-hours coverage Threats can escalate overnight, on weekends, or during holidays when internal teams are stretched. Provides continuous monitoring, investigation, and response support around the clock.
Siloed tools Endpoint, network, identity, cloud, and email tools may generate disconnected alerts and blind spots. Unifies visibility across multiple control points to improve detection and accelerate response.
Regulatory and audit pressure HIPAA, cyber insurance, privacy expectations, and executive oversight increase the need for documented security workflows. Supports reporting, workflows, and coordinated response processes that help strengthen readiness.
Patient care disruption Cyber incidents can impact clinical systems, delay care, and reduce trust. Helps contain threats earlier to reduce operational disruption and support care continuity.

Why Traditional Security Tools Are Not Enough

Many healthcare organizations already have multiple security tools in place, but more tools do not always create better protection. When alerts remain siloed across endpoint, identity, network, email, and cloud environments, teams must manually piece together what happened, what matters, and how to respond. That slows down investigation and increases the risk that meaningful signals are missed.

  • Disconnected alerts create blind spots.
  • Manual triage slows response.
  • False positives drain analyst capacity.
  • Limited staffing leaves gaps in coverage.
  • Clinical uptime makes speed and accuracy critical.
Traditional Security Tools

How Managed XDR Helps

Managed XDR provides a co-managed security operations model that combines technology with expert human analysts. The solution is designed to help healthcare organizations reduce alert noise, improve visibility, accelerate response, and strengthen security operations without requiring them to build a full 24x7 SOC internally.

  • 24x7 monitoring and response

    Coverage across nights, weekends, holidays, and high-risk windows.

  • XDR-centric correlation

    Improved visibility across endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and email telemetry.

  • Noise reduction and triage

    Helps teams focus on incidents that require action rather than chasing every alert.

  • Human-led investigation

    Expert analysts validate, investigate, and support response decisions with context.

  • Co-managed delivery

    Works as an extension of the customer team while maintaining transparency and control.

  • Response playbooks

    Supports consistent investigation and containment workflows aligned to risk priorities.
Connection Managed XDR

The Connection Approach to Managed XDR

  • Partner-led model: We work with healthcare teams, not around them.
  • Co-managed Service: Healthcare organizations keep administrative access and full visibility into the alerts, investigations, and outcomes
  • Full lifecycle protection: Prevent, detect, investigate, contain, and remediate threats.
  • Human-in-the-loop automation: Combines speed with expert validation.
  • Cross-layer visibility: Connects signals across security environments; AI-driven detection, human-led response.
  • Healthcare context: Positions cybersecurity around resilience, compliance, uptime, and patient care continuity.
  • Flexible extension of the team: Helps reduce the burden of building and staffing an internal SOC.

Healthcare Use Cases

  • Protect clinical operations: Help secure systems that support patient care delivery, scheduling, communications, and electronic medical records.
  • Safeguard sensitive patient data: Reduce exposure to ransomware, phishing, credential compromise, and data breach risk.
  • Secure connected environments: Improve visibility across endpoints, cloud applications, identity, network, and connected care infrastructure.
  • Support modernization: Extend security coverage as organizations adopt AI, cloud, telehealth, and digital care models.
  • Augment security teams: Strengthen security operations when recruiting and retaining cybersecurity talent is challenging.
Healthcare Use Cases

Ready to talk about Healthcare Technology Solutions?
Call a Connection expert today.

1.800.800.0019

Strengthen Healthcare Security Operations—Without Adding More Burden to Your Team

Connection’s Managed Cisco XDR, operated or delivered with Port53, helps healthcare organizations extend security coverage, reduce alert fatigue, and accelerate response across complex clinical and IT environments. Our experts work alongside your team to help protect patient care, improve visibility, and strengthen cyber resilience around the clock.
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