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API Protection for Healthcare
Protect patient data and secure digital healthcare.
As healthcare organizations increasingly integrate their operations both internally and externally, that connectivity transforms the patient experience, but it also increases the attack surface. Healthcare organizations must protect sensitive patient data, prevent fraud and account abuse, and secure an increasingly complex ecosystem of APIs and third-party connections, all while meeting stringent regulatory requirements. For healthcare leaders, securing applications and APIs isn’t simply an IT priority.
The Security Reality for Healthcare
Healthcare involves many parties working together such as health insurance, healthcare marketing, pharmacy and prescription management, healthcare tech, and health administration. This makes them a target for attackers and cybercriminals seeking monetary gain by stealing patient records or healthcare financial data. Attacks on healthcare applications and APIs can introduce a range of risks and they impact the entire business. Business impacts include:
Infrastructure
Whether it’s an automated ATO on a perfectly coded API, or a volumetric attack against an application without resource or rate limiting, the impact can cause costs to skyrocket. Worse yet, the web site and mobile app can become non-responsive, resulting in user dissatisfaction.
Security
Security teams are impacted by efforts to slow or stop API attacks, often struggling to separate real transactions from fake, or worse yet, blindsided by an unprotected shadow API.
Fraud Teams
Fraud teams are overwhelmed by unauthorized fraudulent activity that affects their business operations, brand, and customers. This enables fraudsters to constantly instigate new and creative campaigns to avoid detection and defraud users and businesses.
Marketing & Sales
Depending on the type of attack, these groups may be presented with inflated marketing statistics which turn into poor or misleading sales program decisions, missed revenue projections, and damage to vendor relationships.
Patients
Patients absorb the most personal cost when a healthcare API is breached. Attacks can leak protected health information on a scale that turns routine care into a privacy crisis, and a hijacked remote patient monitoring device can trigger a false alarm or mask a real one.
How Cequence Protects Healthcare Organizations
Cequence Security believes in taking a holistic approach to defending against data risk with a market-defining solution that goes beyond traditional security approaches that may focus solely on one aspect of the API and AI protection journey.
Cequence solutions include:
- API Security for API security posture management, testing, and remediation
- Bot Management for advanced bot protection, mitigation, and fraud prevention
- WAAP for integrated bot management, API security, WAF, and DDoS protection
- AI Gateway for secure agentic AI enablement
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