Harmony SASE for Healthcare is designed to help security and networking teams protect ePHI while keeping clinicians and staff productive. From a compliance standpoint, HIPAA requires you to know where ePHI lives, who can access it, and how it is protected. Harmony SASE supports this in three main ways: 1. **Deep visibility for compliance** - Provides a single, unified dashboard (a “single pane of glass”) where you can see users, endpoints, groups, policies, and recent activity across on‑prem, private cloud, and public cloud environments. - Offers holistic logging of network activity, including device posture and health, app connections, access attempts, policy changes, and gateway deployments. - Integrates with tools like Splunk, Amazon S3, and Azure Sentinel so your SIEM can perform deeper analysis and support audit and incident investigations. - Allows you to view and download user and system activity logs to demonstrate controls and support HIPAA Security Rule documentation. 2. **Granular access control and least privilege** - Uses an identity‑centric Zero Trust model, enforcing the principle of least privilege. - Lets you define access policies by user and group, aligned to job roles, and apply them consistently when users log in via your Identity Provider (IdP) or any SAML 2.0 solution (e.g., Google, Azure AD, Okta). - Extends these policies to both cloud and on‑prem resources via an agent, so the same rules apply regardless of where the application or data is hosted. - Supports network segmentation and firewall rules to control traffic between services, users, and addresses, reducing the attack surface around systems that store or process ePHI. 3. **Stronger protection for patient data in motion and at the edge** - Enforces device posture checks before and during sessions, ensuring endpoints meet your security standards (e.g., configuration, security tools) before accessing sensitive resources. - Adds multi‑factor authentication and automatic Wi‑Fi security to reduce the risk of compromised credentials and unsafe wireless connections. - Uses encrypted site‑to‑site gateways to protect patient data as it traverses the network, including between locations and to the cloud. Together, these capabilities help you reduce the likelihood of unauthorized access, support HIPAA Security Rule requirements around access control and audit controls, and provide the documentation and visibility you need for audits and internal governance—without slowing down clinical workflows.

Healthcare organizations are a frequent target for cybercriminals because of the value of patient records and the urgency of restoring operations. In 2023, there were **630 ransomware attacks** impacting healthcare organizations worldwide, **460 of them in the US**, and the number of attacks nearly **doubled from 2022 to 2023**. Harmony SASE helps you address this risk in several ways: 1. **Unified security across expanding networks** - Supports hybrid environments that combine on‑premises systems with private and public cloud, giving you consistent security policies across all locations. - Reduces the need to manage multiple point solutions for authentication, access control, encryption, and firewalls, which can create gaps attackers exploit. 2. **Zero Trust access and segmentation** - Implements user‑centric Zero Trust access, so users only reach the specific applications and data they need, rather than broad network segments. - Enables fine‑grained segmentation and firewall rules to limit lateral movement if an account or device is compromised. - Uses device posture checks to keep non‑compliant or risky devices from connecting to sensitive resources. 3. **Stronger protection for remote and on‑site users** - Provides automatic Wi‑Fi security and multi‑factor authentication to reduce the impact of credential theft, social engineering, and unsafe networks. - Encrypts site‑to‑site traffic, protecting data moving between facilities, data centers, and cloud environments. 4. **Faster detection and response through visibility** - Delivers real‑time visibility into who is accessing what, from where, and on which device, helping you spot unusual behavior quickly. - Centralized logs and SIEM integrations (Splunk, Amazon S3, Azure Sentinel) support faster investigation of suspicious activity and potential ransomware precursors, such as unusual access patterns or policy changes. By consolidating networking and security into a single platform, Harmony SASE helps short‑staffed IT and security teams close coverage gaps, limit the blast radius of an incident, and maintain continuity of care even as threats evolve.

Harmony SASE is built to balance security, compliance, and usability so that clinicians and staff can access what they need without unnecessary friction, while IT gains more control and simpler operations. **For clinicians and staff** - **Consistent access from anywhere:** Whether they are on‑site, remote, or using BYOD, users connect through an identity‑centric Zero Trust model that routes them directly to the applications and data they are authorized to use. - **Local browsing experience:** By combining on‑device and cloud‑delivered protections, Harmony SASE is designed to provide a local, responsive browsing experience while still enforcing security and privacy controls. - **Reliable connectivity for care delivery:** The integrated secure SD‑WAN optimizes connectivity and provides seamless link failover, helping keep web conferencing and cloud apps stable during patient consultations and team collaboration. **For IT and security teams** - **Single management console:** You manage internet security, Zero Trust access, and SD‑WAN from one unified console, instead of juggling multiple tools for VPN, firewalls, and remote access. - **Unified view of users and endpoints:** The dashboard shows all users, endpoints, groups, policies, recent activity, and security posture in one place, across Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, and Windows, with both agent‑based and agentless options. - **Faster deployment and changes:** You can build a secure corporate network over a private global backbone in less than an hour, then adjust policies centrally as needs change (e.g., new clinics, new apps, or new research teams). - **Integrated logging and analytics:** Detailed logs of network and user activity can be exported or integrated with SIEM platforms for monitoring, reporting, and audit preparation. **For overall network performance and reliability** - **Optimized SD‑WAN:** Harmony SASE unifies threat prevention with optimized connectivity and automated steering for over **10,000 applications**, helping ensure that critical clinical and business apps get the performance they need. - **Full mesh private access:** The platform supports full mesh Zero Trust access across locations, improving resilience and reducing dependence on a single data center or VPN hub. - **24/7 global support:** The service is backed by a global support team available around the clock, which can be especially important for healthcare environments that operate continuously. In practice, this means clinicians get more reliable, secure access to the tools and data they need, while IT gains clearer visibility, stronger control, and a simpler way to manage security and networking across the entire healthcare environment.