Ransomware, misconfigurations, and unmonitored devices have made healthcare one of the most targeted sectors worldwide. According to recent studies, the average breach in healthcare costs over $11 million — the highest across any industry.
To stay ahead, healthcare organizations must move beyond traditional audits and point-in-time assessments. What’s needed now is continuous cyber posture visibility — an intelligent, real-time view of where risks truly lie.
Modern healthcare ecosystems span thousands of endpoints, cloud workloads, and third-party systems — all supporting patient care.But this complexity creates serious challenges:
Each factor weakens resilience and adds uncertainty for CISOs who need clear, continuous answers to one question: How secure are we right now?
A recent study found that healthcare organizations rely on third-party vendors, but 60% don’t monitor them continuously. Instead, they rely on annual audits or manual reviews to assess security posture. While these processes are valuable, they capture only a snapshot — and that snapshot is outdated almost immediately.
When new devices connect to hospital networks, or configurations change in the cloud, those updates often go unmeasured. The result is a dangerous confidence gap: the illusion of control without real assurance.
Discern Security’s Cyber Posture Assessment is designed to close that gap by providing live, data-driven insight into your organization’s security posture.
The platform integrates seamlessly with tools you already use — Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Okta, Proofpoint, and others — to build a unified, correlated picture of security across your entire environment.
1. Comprehensive Control Visibility. Discern aggregates data from across your ecosystem — endpoints, identities, cloud workloads, and medical IoT — revealing every asset, configuration, and coverage gap.
2. Continuous Posture Scoring. Each control is evaluated against leading frameworks such as NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, and CIS Controls. The result is a real-time posture score that evolves as your environment changes.
3. Safe GenAI Recommendations. Built-in AI interprets control data and provides clear, contextual guidance. Example: “Enable MFA for all privileged users in Azure AD to raise your identity control score by 12%.”
4. Executive-Ready Dashboards. A no-code, interactive dashboard translates complex telemetry into board-level clarity — showing trends, progress, and risk exposure at a glance.
By adopting continuous posture assessment, healthcare organizations can:
A major U.S. hospital network recently used Discern’s Cyber Posture Assessment to uncover hundreds of inactive endpoint agents across its environment — an invisible gap that, once fixed, reduced exposure by over 20%.
Healthcare security isn’t just about protecting data; it’s about protecting people. As digital care expands, the ability to continuously measure, validate, and optimize controls becomes vital to operational resilience and patient trust.
Discern Security’s Cyber Posture Assessment gives healthcare organizations the intelligence to do just that — turning fragmented data into actionable insights, and compliance checklists into measurable assurance.
Because in modern healthcare, cyber resilience isn’t achieved once a year — it’s earned every day.
