Ransomware on clinical systems
Double-extortion campaigns targeting PAS, EMR, imaging (PACS) and pathology LIS where downtime forces clinical diversion.
Regulated industry
Healthcare & Pharma
Cybersecurity for hospitals, health services, life-sciences and aged care - where patient safety and sensitive health data never pause.
Where an outage is a clinical incident, not an IT one.
Healthcare is the single most-attacked sector in Australia by incident volume, and the most consequential by outcome - an outage on a clinical system is a clinical safety event, not a ticket in a service-management queue. Vectra works with metro and regional health services, pathology providers, aged care and life-sciences companies on programs that protect PHI without making it harder for clinicians to do their job. Our Healthcare Risk Assessment is offered free for qualifying providers and is assessed against the OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, APPs and the RACGP Information Security standards.
See the services we bring to the sectorHealth services supported
30+
Free healthcare risk assessments
120+
Patient records secured
6.2M
SOC hosting
AUonshore
Threat landscape
The threats hitting Australian healthcare right now.
Drawn from Vectra Labs research, our SOC telemetry and sector-specific intelligence from the Ensign global SOC footprint. These are the vectors we tune detections and playbooks around.
PHI exfiltration & leak sites
Threat actors exfiltrating Medicare, pathology and mental-health records for extortion and dark-market sale.
Medical-device and IoMT exposure
Unmanaged infusion pumps, imaging modalities and nurse-call systems running legacy OS with no vendor-supported patch path.
Phishing against clinical staff
MFA-fatigue, adversary-in-the-middle and OAuth consent phishing exploiting shared-workstation environments.
Compliance
Privacy and health-data frameworks we align to.
Every Vectra engagement produces evidence mapped to the frameworks that actually govern your sector - not a generic ISO crosswalk.
- 01 OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches scheme
- 02 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)
- 03 My Health Records Act
- 04 HIPAA and HITECH (for US exposure)
- 05 RACGP Information Security Standards
- 06 TGA GxP for pharma manufacturing environments
- 07 ISO 27799 (Health Informatics)
Services
How health providers engage Vectra.
Most engagements start with one or two of these services, then grow into a full sector-specific program. A single accountable team stays with you throughout.
Managed XDR
Healthcare Risk Assessment
Free sensitive-data assessment for qualifying providers.
Managed XDR
Managed Detection & Response
Clinical-system aware 24/7 SOC with out-of-hours cover.
Advisory
Penetration Testing
Network, web, mobile, medical-device and cloud scoped engagements.
Advisory
ASD Essential 8
Practical uplift paths for constrained health IT teams.
Managed XDR
Incident Response Retainer
Declared-incident support with OAIC notification pre-drafted.
Advisory
ISO 27001
Certification scoped around clinical and research environments.
Outcomes that protect clinicians, patients and research.
Measurable, reportable, auditable - every outcome tracks to a control in your sector's framework.
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Continuous protection for PAS, EMR, PACS and LIS platforms without clinical disruption
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Pre-drafted OAIC NDB notifications ready for privacy officer sign-off inside 72 hours
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Evidence of medical-device network segregation for accreditation surveys
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Research and clinical-trial data protected under Good Clinical Practice and TGA obligations
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Board-level briefings framed around patient-safety outcomes, not technical metrics
Questions health and pharma customers ask first.
Can't find the answer here? The sector lead responds to scoping queries within one business day - usually faster.
Ask the sector team directlyDo you understand clinical change-control?
Yes. Our engineers schedule assessment and remediation work around clinical workflow, weekend elective lists and imaging bookings. We don't touch production PACS or LIS without change approval from the clinical governance lead.
Can you assess medical devices on the network?
Yes. We do passive OT/IoMT discovery so infusion pumps, modalities and nurse-call systems aren't probed the way a generic pentest would. Findings map to TGA cyber-security guidance for medical devices.
Is the Healthcare Risk Assessment really free?
Yes - for qualifying Australian providers. It's a structured review of PHI exposure, Essential Eight posture and incident-readiness, delivered as a written report with no obligation to proceed.
Do you support aged-care providers under the SIRS?
Yes. We help aged-care providers meet the Serious Incident Response Scheme's cyber reporting obligations, with playbooks that treat a cyber incident as a reportable safety event.
Security, engineered around you.
Talk to an engineer - not a call centre. Most Vectra conversations start with a 30-minute technical briefing and end with a written plan.