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Cybersecurity for hospitals and life sciences on Cloudflare.

Brixio secures hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and medtech manufacturers with Cloudflare deployments designed to protect patient data and ensure continuity of care. NIS2 and HIPAA-aligned implementation by a certified ASDP with experience securing clinical systems across EMEA and the GCC.

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NIS2-aligned HIPAA (US) ready ASDP Partner ISO 27001:2022

$9.77M
Average breach cost
Average cost of a healthcare data breach in 2024, the highest of any industry for the 14th consecutive year (IBM / Ponemon Institute).
+82%
API attacks increase
Increase in web application and API attacks targeting the healthcare sector in one year (Akamai Healthcare Cyberattack Report 2024).
445
Ransomware attacks
Ransomware attacks recorded on hospitals and clinics in 2025, a 30% increase compared to 2024 (Comparitech).
400+
Brixio projects
Cloudflare projects delivered by Brixio across regulated industries, including healthcare, banking, government, and energy.
Sector threat landscape

Cyber threats targeting hospitals and healthcare organisations

Healthcare has held the highest average data breach cost of any industry for 14 consecutive years. Ransomware attacks on hospitals jumped 30% in 2025, and web application and API attacks grew 82% in a single year.

01Patient data

EHR breaches with cascading impact

Electronic health records concentrate identity, financial, and medical information in a single record. A healthcare breach costs an average of $9.77 million, more than double the cross-industry average.

02Clinical operations

Ransomware disrupts patient care

When a hospital's systems go down, surgeries are postponed, emergency departments divert patients, and clinical teams revert to paper. 445 ransomware attacks hit hospitals and clinics in 2025 alone.

03Connected estate

Devices and third-party access

Connected medical devices often run outdated software, while clinicians, specialists, and vendors connect from multiple locations. Legacy VPNs grant broad network access instead of application-level control.

In healthcare, a cybersecurity failure is not an IT incident. It is a patient safety incident.

BrixioOne
Cloudflare for healthcare

What we deploy for hospitals and healthcare organisations

A unified platform addressing the core cybersecurity challenges of healthcare: clinical access, application protection, service continuity, data loss prevention, and connected medical devices. One architecture across the five capability areas.

EHR, clinical apps, BYOD

Zero Trust for clinical and remote access

Clinicians, specialists, and third-party staff need secure access to EHR systems, clinical applications, and patient data from hospitals, clinics, and remote locations. Legacy VPNs grant excessive network access and cannot enforce granular, identity-based controls.

  • Cloudflare Access with SSO and MFA integration (Azure AD, Okta, national health identity providers)
  • Cloudflare Tunnel for secure access to clinical systems without public exposure
  • Device posture enforcement across hospital-issued and personal devices (BYOD)
Regulatory alignment

Compliance built into the architecture

Compliance is not a layer added after deployment. It is built into the architecture from the first design workshop.

NIS2 — Network and Information Security Directive

EUHealthcare classified as essential entities since 2025

Hospitals, healthcare providers, medical device manufacturers

Risk management, incident reporting within 24h, supply chain security, access control.

CloudflareZero Trust Access, Gateway SWG, DDoS protection, audit logging, Magic WAN for network segmentation.

GDPR — General Data Protection Regulation

EUPatient data classified as special category data

Any organisation processing EU patient data

Enhanced protection of special category data, explicit consent, DPO obligations, data minimisation.

CloudflareDLP, Regional Services for data residency, Keyless SSL, access logging.

HIPAA — Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

US onlyApplies exclusively to the US market

US covered entities and business associates handling PHI

PHI protection (Security Rule), breach notification (Breach Notification Rule), privacy controls (Privacy Rule).

CloudflareWAF, DLP, Zero Trust Access, encryption, audit logging. Cloudflare signs Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) for Enterprise plans.

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Sub-sectors

Cybersecurity across healthcare sub-sectors

Hospitals

EHR systems, clinical staff, and patient portals under ransomware and DDoS pressure.

  • Zero Trust Access for clinicians
  • WAF + DDoS for patient portals
  • DLP for PHI leakage prevention

Life Sciences

Drug formulations, clinical trial data, and regulatory submissions as high-value IP targets.

  • Zero Trust for R&D access
  • DLP for IP protection
  • API Shield for supply chain

Health Tech

Connected medical devices and medtech platforms running legacy software with limited built-in security.

  • Magic WAN for network segmentation
  • Gateway DNS filtering
  • Device posture controls

Insurance / Mutuelles

Claims platforms and member portals holding large volumes of medical and financial data.

  • WAF + bot management for claims
  • DLP for PHI and financial data
  • Zero Trust for distributed teams
Why Brixio

Why healthcare organisations choose Brixio for Cloudflare deployments.

Six reasons that come up across every healthcare engagement.

Full lifecycle

Others deploy and leave. Brixio operates long-term through managed services, reactive support, and emergency incident response. The architecture you receive on day one is the architecture we keep tuning.

Healthcare regulatory awareness

Simultaneous knowledge of NIS2 (EU), HIPAA (US), and GDPR. Brixio designs architectures that satisfy multiple regulatory frameworks for organisations operating across jurisdictions.

GCC and European footprint

A dedicated hub in Dubai for the Gulf and active clients across the EU. We understand both regulatory environments and the operational constraints of each healthcare market.

ASDP certified

Authorised Service Delivery Partner with direct escalation to Cloudflare engineering. Documented, auditable delivery process aligned with NIS2 supply chain security requirements.

ISO 27001:2022

Compliance built into our own operations, not just our clients'. Independent audit, documented controls, and a security posture that holds up under healthcare-grade due diligence.

Follow-the-sun 24/7

Engineers in Luxembourg, Paris, Dubai and Singapore. Healthcare operates around the clock. So do we. Critical incidents do not wait for business hours.

Get started

Start with a Healthcare Cybersecurity Assessment.

Brixio's professional services team deploys the Cloudflare architecture mapped to your clinical governance and regulatory expectations. An assessment is the natural starting point.

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Trusted and certified
  • ASDPAuthorised Service Delivery Partner
  • ISO27001:2022 certified
  • 400+Projects in regulated industries
FAQs

Healthcare cybersecurity & Cloudflare deployment

Cloudflare's security stack maps directly to NIS2 requirements for essential entities: network security (Magic WAN, Magic Firewall), access control (Zero Trust Access, Gateway), incident detection (security event logging, DDoS alerts), and supply chain risk management (ASDP-certified delivery). Brixio delivers a compliance mapping as part of every healthcare engagement.

Cloudflare signs Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) for customers on Enterprise plans, which is a prerequisite for handling protected health information under HIPAA. Brixio configures Cloudflare services to align with HIPAA Security Rule requirements. Note: HIPAA applies exclusively to the US market. For EU organisations, NIS2 and GDPR are the relevant frameworks.

Cloudflare reduces ransomware risk through multiple layers: Zero Trust Access eliminates broad network access (the primary lateral movement vector), Gateway SWG blocks access to known malicious domains, WAF prevents exploitation of web-facing applications, and DDoS protection ensures service continuity during an attack. Brixio configures these layers as part of a defence-in-depth architecture.

Yes. Magic WAN connects hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and pharmacies through a single, secure connectivity layer, replacing MPLS and site-to-site VPN. Centralised firewall policies apply across all sites, and Argo Smart Routing optimises inter-site performance.

Medical device security is addressed through network segmentation: Magic WAN and Gateway isolate medical device networks from general IT networks, limiting lateral movement. Device posture controls and DNS filtering add additional layers. Brixio designs the segmentation architecture during the healthcare architecture design phase. Note: Brixio does not perform medical device vulnerability assessments or firmware patching, which remain the responsibility of device manufacturers and clinical engineering teams.

Brixio offers three post-deployment options: managed services (ongoing operations), reactive support (credit-based L2/L3 assistance), or emergency incident response (engagement within 60 minutes). Healthcare organisations can choose the level of ongoing support that fits their operational model.

Protect your healthcare infrastructure with Cloudflare

Whether you are securing clinical access for a hospital group, protecting patient data for an insurer, or segmenting medical device networks for a medtech manufacturer, Brixio delivers the Cloudflare deployment with the expertise and regulatory awareness that healthcare demands.

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Patient data, nowhere to leak. We make sure it stays that way.

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