CynergisTek Partners with Awake Security to Identify Adversaries in Healthcare Networks
05 August 2020 - 3:15PM
Business Wire
Threat and compromise assessments will provide
healthcare organizations with vital intelligence to identify
attacker activity
CynergisTek, Inc. (NYSE AMERICAN: CTEK), a leader in information
security, privacy, and compliance, today announced it has partnered
with Awake Security to offer CynergisTek’s customer base of more
than 1,000 healthcare organizations a new compromise assessment.
The assessment combines human expertise in digital forensics and
incident response, threat intelligence, as well as Awake’s network
detection and response technology that hunts for attacker behaviors
and provides forensics across networks to enable autonomous
responses.
“As America’s hospitals scrambled to respond to the pandemic,
the entire threat landscape and the associated attack surface
completely changed, placing America’s hospitals squarely in the
cross hairs for adversarial activity. New vulnerabilities from
telemedicine combined with an increased network footprint due to
work-from-home employees and we have a perfect storm for increased
cyber attacks. This partnership allows us to identify adversarial
activity including reconnaissance in its early stages allowing
organizations to re-baseline their security posture as they return
to normal operations,” said Ben Denkers, SVP of Security and
Privacy Services at CynergisTek. “We’re excited to partner with
Awake Security and bring a unique offering to our clients which
leverages autonomous threat hunting and network forensic technology
to identify any malicious behavior in healthcare organizations
during this time of upheaval.”
COVID-19 has caused tectonic shifts in hospitals and other
health-related organizations’ security postures and attack
surfaces. As vulnerabilities have significantly increased,
hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and other healthcare
institutions are particularly at risk as cybercriminals aim to
create even more chaos among this sector already buckling under the
pressure by a meteoric rise in coronavirus cases. This is made
worse by a distributed healthcare workforce, vulnerable
intellectual property related to COVID-19 research, and dwindling
IT budgets and resources.
Through the partnership, CynergisTek and Awake are assembling
the best minds in networking, machine learning, data science,
cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance to help healthcare
organizations get a more complete view and understanding of their
potential attack surface -- including every user, medical device,
and application on the network. By doing so, hospitals will be able
to track every asset that moves across their network, whether
on-premises or from remote users working in the cloud, while
identifying high-risk incidents and compromised entities without
the need for agents, manual configuration, or complex
integrations.
“Sensitive healthcare data is extremely valuable to hackers, and
we know they aren’t sitting on the sidelines during the pandemic,
but are in fact attacking both hospitals and pharmaceutical
companies during this volatile time,” said Rahul Kashyap, CEO of
Awake Security. “We are always looking to partner with
forward-thinking companies like CynergisTek to help organizations
detect and respond to threats they may not even know existed. In
times like this, we’re excited to help healthcare entities for this
‘all-hands-on-deck’ moment to bolster their defenses and prevent
crises from emerging and impacting patients.”
About CynergisTek, Inc.
CynergisTek is a top-ranked cybersecurity firm dedicated to
serving the information assurance needs of the healthcare industry.
CynergisTek offers specialized services and solutions to help
organizations achieve privacy, security, and compliance goals.
Since 2004, the company has served as a partner to hundreds of
healthcare organizations and is dedicated to supporting and
educating the industry by contributing to relevant industry
associations. The company has been recognized by KLAS as a
top-performing firm in healthcare cybersecurity and was awarded the
2019 Top Healthcare Cybersecurity Consultants in Black Book IT
Advisory Outcomes Survey.
About Awake Security
Awake Security is the only advanced network detection and
response company that delivers answers, not alerts. By combining
artificial intelligence with human expertise, Awake autonomously
models and hunts for both insider and external attacker behaviors,
while providing triage, digital forensics and incident response
across the new network—perimeter, core, IoT and cloud networks. The
platform is ranked #1 by EMA for time to value and was recognized
as the #1 information security solution being evaluated by global
1000 companies in Enterprise Technology Research’s (ETR) Summer
2019 Emerging Technology Study.
Awake is backed by Greylock Partners, Bain Capital Ventures,
Evolution Equity Partners, Energize Ventures and Liberty Global
Ventures. Learn more at https://www.awakesecurity.com and follow
Awake on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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