Protecting Critical Healthcare Systems

Healthcare organizations have made real progress securing EHR platforms like Epic, Meditech, and Oracle Health. But attackers don’t need to breach the EHR to stop care. When clinical devices, building systems, or shared services are disrupted, the result is downtime, canceled procedures, diverted ambulances, and patient safety risk.

This solution brief explains how Zentera extends Zero Trust enforcement to the systems that traditional controls cannot protect - without agents, network redesign, or operational disruption. By focusing on identity-based access and lateral-movement prevention, healthcare organizations can reduce blast radius, protect clinical continuity, and advance Zero Trust maturity where NAC, firewalls, and ZTNA stall.

What you’ll learn

• Why patient safety risk increasingly comes from non-EHR systems such as clinical devices, facilities infrastructure, and shared services
• How ransomware exploits legacy assets, VLAN exceptions, and lateral movement to trigger operational shutdowns
• Which healthcare environments are most exposed, including labs, imaging workflows, building systems, and distributed clinics
• How agentless, identity-based enforcement protects assets that can’t be patched or redesigned
• What measurable outcomes look like, including reduced downtime risk, contained blast radius, and improved auditability
• How to deploy Zero Trust incrementally and fast, starting with the highest-risk dependencies