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Top 5 Must-Haves to Healthy Cybersecurity

by Veriti on May 13, 2025

A practical guide from the experts at Check Point & Veriti

Introduction

In 2024, over 170 million healthcare records were exposed. The Change Healthcare breach alone impacted over 100 million individuals. With sophisticated ransomware groups evolving and medical devices increasingly connected, cybersecurity in healthcare is no longer just about compliance – it’s about continuity of care.

This guide is for healthcare IT, security, and risk professionals who need a clear, outcome-driven strategy to reduce risk without disrupting operations. It outlines five essential principles to help build a resilient and proactive security posture – based on the shared expertise of Check Point and Veriti.

Must-Have #1 – Know What You’re Protecting (Visibility)

Before you can protect it, you need to see it. Healthcare organizations must maintain real-time visibility into medical devices, patient systems, third-party integrations, and OT/IoT infrastructure.

Check Point delivers continuous asset discovery and protection across IT/OT and medical devices with IoT security. Discovers connected devices, shadow assets,
and cloud workloads.

Veriti aggregates and normalizes data to present a unified configuration, vulnerability, and threat data across the security stack (EDR, VA, FW, UEM).

Must-Have #2 – See the Big Picture (Assessment)

You can’t reduce what you can’t see – visibility is the first step toward reducing cyber risk.

Check Point delivers full visibility across healthcare environments with deep intelligence on network threats, lateral movement, and zero-trust posture gaps.

Veriti continuously assesses the effectiveness of all deployed security controls to verify they are working as expected and recommend changes if they are not.

Must-Have #3 – Block What Can Be Blocked (Prevention)

You can’t rely on detection alone – especially in environments where legacy tech and limited staff are common.

Check Point provides proactive threat prevention and zero-day protection with advanced threat emulation and malware sandboxing.

Veriti enriches threat intelligence across the estate and automatically populates Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) to firewalls, EDR, and other enforcement points.

Must-Have #4 – Fix What Matters Most (Prioritization)

Healthcare environments are flooded with vulnerabilities, but not all of them pose equal risk. You need to focus on what’s exploitable, business-critical, and unprotected.

Check Point provides pre-emptive, runtime protection that’s prioritized based on AI and the ThreatCloud intelligence database.

Veriti correlates vulnerabilities with real threat intelligence data, business impact, and compensating controls to prioritize what truly needs remediation.

Must-Have #5 – Remediate Without Disruption (Response)

Remediation in healthcare must be fast – but safe. Taking down a critical application isn’t an option.

Check Point firewalls and IPS systems can be hardened automatically through threat driven rule updates.

Veriti enables safe remediation through policy adjustments, virtual patching, infrastructure-wide compensating controls, and elimination of false positives – without breaking the business.