Regulated industry

Healthcare & Pharma

Cybersecurity for hospitals, health services, life-sciences and aged care, where patient safety and sensitive health data can't wait.

Healthcare cyber security, with patient safety as the goal.

Healthcare is Australia's most attacked sector by incident volume, and the most consequential by outcome. An outage on a clinical system is a patient safety event, not a support ticket. Vectra works with metro and regional health services, pathology providers, aged care and life sciences firms. We protect PHI without slowing clinicians down. Our Healthcare Risk Assessment is free for qualifying providers. It checks your posture against the OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, the APPs and the RACGP Information Security standards.

Healthcare & Pharma
30 days
To assess a suspected data breach (NDB scheme)
7
Frameworks we map to for this sector
CREST
Accredited penetration testing
2001
Operating in Australia

Cyber threats hitting Australian healthcare right now.

Ransomware on clinical systems

Double-extortion attacks hit PAS, EMR, imaging (PACS) and pathology LIS - downtime forces clinical diversion.

PHI exfiltration & leak sites

Attackers steal Medicare, pathology and mental-health records for extortion and dark-market sale.

Medical-device and IoMT exposure

Unmanaged infusion pumps, imaging gear and nurse-call systems run old software with no vendor patches.

Phishing against clinical staff

MFA-fatigue, adversary-in-the-middle and OAuth consent phishing exploit shared-workstation environments.

Privacy Act and My Health Record obligations we align to.

  • OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches scheme

  • Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)

  • My Health Records Act

  • HIPAA and HITECH (for US exposure)

  • RACGP Information Security Standards

  • TGA GxP for pharma manufacturing

  • ISO 27799 (Health Informatics)

How health and pharma providers engage Vectra.

Healthcare Risk Assessment

Free sensitive-data assessment for qualifying providers.

Managed Detection & Response

Clinical-system aware 24/7 SOC with out-of-hours cover.

Penetration Testing

Network, web, mobile, medical-device and cloud scoped engagements.

ASD Essential 8

Practical uplift paths for stretched health IT teams.

Incident Response Retainer

Declared-incident support with OAIC notification pre-drafted.

ISO 27001

Certification built for clinics and research labs.

Healthcare data protection outcomes for clinicians and patients.

  • Continuous protection for PAS, EMR, PACS and LIS platforms without clinical disruption

  • Pre-drafted OAIC NDB notifications ready for privacy officer sign-off inside 72 hours

  • Evidence of medical-device network segregation for accreditation surveys

  • Research and clinical-trial data protected under Good Clinical Practice and TGA rules

  • Board-level briefings framed around patient-safety outcomes, not technical metrics

Questions health and pharma customers ask first.

Do you understand clinical change-control?

Yes. Our engineers plan assessment and remediation work around clinical workflow, weekend elective lists and imaging bookings. We won't touch production PACS or LIS without sign off from your clinical governance lead.

Can you assess medical devices on the network?

Yes. We do passive OT/IoMT discovery so infusion pumps, modalities and nurse-call systems aren't probed the way a generic pentest would. Findings map to TGA cyber-security guidance for medical devices.

Is the Healthcare Risk Assessment really free?

Yes, for qualifying Australian providers. It's a structured review of PHI exposure, Essential Eight posture and incident readiness, delivered as a written report with no obligation to proceed.

Do you support aged-care providers under the SIRS?

Yes. We help aged care providers meet the Serious Incident Response Scheme's cyber reporting rules. Our playbooks treat a cyber incident as a reportable safety event.

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