Healthcare
Our homes, lives - and even our bodies - are filled with devices that are transforming healthcare, but also creating new nightmares for privacy and security. Faction can help.
THE CHALLENGE
Telehealth, online data sharing and personal and home eHealth devices are enabling healthcare teams to provide more efficient care to more patients than ever before. But for small practice groups, early stage companies and even large healthcare organizations looking to innovate, ensuring privacy and security are hugely problematic.
Virtual Care is a Dream Come True for Ransomware Gangs
Telemedicine and virtual care programs allow healthcare providers to effectively treat patients in ways that were only dreamed of just a decade ago.While allowing practitioners to monitor patients remotely through IoT devices that track vital signs and will enable the sharing of patient records, these connected devices have also introduced new attack vectors that makes every device, patient, and healthcare worker a network security risk.With more dependency on remote connectivity, every practice, lab, and hospital becomes a bigger target for cybercriminals looking to steal valuable patient data or disrupt operations through a ransomware attack.Sadly, of course, stealing data may soon become the least of our worries. As eHealth devices become embedded in our lives – and even our bodies – the consequences of disruption can become catastrophic.
Ensuring Data Security and Privacy Pose Huge Burdens on Small Practices
When we think of protecting data, the focus tends to be on secure remote access to patient data in EHR (Electronic Health Record) platforms and the growing array of SaaS ‘SaaS (Software-as-as-Service) cloud applications.While larger enterprises have made strides in recent years to improve security of authentication with 2FA and authenticator apps, smaller practices have lagged behind. And most have entirely forgotten about all the data lying around on endpoint devices like computers, tablets, smartphones and cloud drives.In fact, businesses protect just 3% of folders online (and 88% of businesses have 1+ million folders). Not surprisingly, this is where the largest proportion of HIPAA violation and ransomware attack occur!73% Of Black Hat Hackers See Standard Firewalls and Antivirus programs as obsolete
73% Of Black Hat Hackers See Standard Firewalls and Antivirus programs as obsolete83% of 1,300 physician practices surveyed have already experienced a cyberattack
83% of 1,300 physician practices surveyed have already experienced a cyberattack according to a recent survey by the American Medical AssociationRate of Attacks on Small Physician Groups and Hospitals Rose five fold in 2022
The number of attacks on physician groups and small hospitals rose from 2% in the first half of 2021 to 12% in the same period of 2022.Since 2020, healthcare breach costs have increased 53.3 percent to $10.93 million
Since 2020, healthcare breach costs have increased 53.3 percent to $10.93 million
Our BYOD World Can Make It Just About Impossible
When caregivers leave large organizations to go into private practices, they suddenly find themselves struggling to find ways to keep data and communications private and secure without all of the super expensive, highly complex Enterprise healthcare software.
And when SaaS apps are available, both caregivers and patients live in a BYOD world, where installing yet another app is met with skepticism. Users want to use the email applications, cloud drives and other apps they are already comfortable with.
Faced with an impossible trade-off between comfort of convenience and familiarity versus protecting data, small practice caregivers all to often just roll the dice with the former and hope for the best.
Faction Virtual Private Circuits Are the Ultimate Invisibility Cloak for Your eHealth Devices and Apps
Faction's groundbreaking decentralized technology takes a simple but innovative approach to render your network - and all the application servers and devices that connect to it - invisible and inaccessible to hackers. When you deploy a Faction Virtual Private Circuit. your network it is virtually impossible for attackers to even detect, let alone infiltrate your network, systems and devices from the Internet.
CyberSecurity Challenges for SMB Healthcare Organizations
Networking
- Securing IoT devices that monitor patient vital signs and dispense medicine.
- Ensuring secure communication between healthcare providers and patients – especially in cross network and ad hoc scenarios.
- Deploying and managing traditional secure networking hardware into home and other distributed environments is resource-intensive, complex, and costly.
- Providing point-to-point connections while maintaining scalability and flexibility.
Devices
- Securing IoT devices that monitor patient vital signs and dispense medicine.
- Securing Devices with Unsupported Operating Systems
- Establishing & maintaining secure connections between BYOD apps installed by patients and smart personal and at home eHealth devices.
- Another point about device security
Data
- Keeping email communications between patient and caregivers – and between caregivers in adhoc teams private and secure
- Sharing and storing large media files – videos, photos, Xrays – while mainting patient privacy and avoiding HIPAA violations.
- Keeping data that is downloaded and stored on BYOD devices private and secure.
- Giving patients control of their data – and the sharing of it – without creating complex rules and workflows.
Faction Puts You In Control
Networking
Create and Control Your Own Personal Private Network
Endpoint-to-Endpoint
The Cloud is Compromised - so remove it from the equation
Easy to Use
Encrypt data at ALL times with keys created and controlled by the data owner
Devices
Take smart, dumb and legacy devices that cannot protect themselves OFF of the Internet into your Faction Network
Data
Encrypt data at ALL time with keys created and controlled by the data owner
Key Features for SMBs in Healthcare
Faction Networks address the three critical challenges of securing networking, data and devices for small to mid-size healthcare providers with a single, low-cost solution that is easy to deploy and easy to use.
Private Network That Only You Control
Rest easy knowing that there are no cloud servers - or services - you are depending upon that can be hacked.
HIPAA Compliance is Baked In
Data is encrypted at all times - in transit and at rest - and the data owner can always control the keys.
HIPAA Compliant Communications
Use email apps and cloud drives that you and your patients are used to, but encrypt all the data with your own keys!
Secure Access to Medical Devices
Use Faction Pods to instantly and easily take critical medical devices - and their data - OFF of the Internet and into your private Faction Network.
Made for the BYOD World
When the Faction app is installed on PC, laptops, tablets and smartphones, data and network access can be restricted with biometrics for the authorized user.
Ransomware-proof Your Data
Use Faction Drive to back-up your data at all times on cloud drives for which only YOU have the keys to access and decrypt.
Build You Own Pod Networks
Effortlessly build a totally private and secure network to protect and share devices across any number of locations - whether in a large home, office or other property, or multiple sites located anywhere in the world.
Protect Cameras & Devices Spread Across a Large Property
Share and Protect Devices with family, friends & teams across the world
Access Your Home/Office Devices, Web and Streaming While Traveling
Join our Pilot Program to Try Faction Now
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