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Healthcare & Pharma

Cybersecurity for hospitals, health services, life-sciences and aged care, where patient safety and sensitive health data can't wait.

Healthcare cyber security where patient safety is the metric.

Healthcare is the most-attacked sector in Australia by incident volume, and the most consequential by outcome: an outage on a clinical system is a patient-safety event, not a support ticket. Vectra works with metro and regional health services, pathology providers, aged care and life-sciences companies on programs that protect PHI without slowing clinicians down. Our Healthcare Risk Assessment is free for qualifying providers, and is assessed against the OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, the APPs and the RACGP Information Security standards.

Healthcare & Pharma
30+
Health services supported
120+
Free healthcare risk assessments
6.2M
Patient records secured
AU
SOC hosting

Cyber threats hitting Australian healthcare right now.

Ransomware on clinical systems

Double-extortion campaigns targeting PAS, EMR, imaging (PACS) and pathology LIS where downtime forces clinical diversion.

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.

Privacy Act and My Health Record obligations we align to.

  • OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches scheme

  • Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)

  • My Health Records Act

  • HIPAA and HITECH (for US exposure)

  • RACGP Information Security Standards

  • TGA GxP for pharma manufacturing environments

  • ISO 27799 (Health Informatics)

How health and pharma providers engage Vectra.

ISO 27001

Certification scoped around clinical and research environments.

Healthcare data protection outcomes for clinicians and patients.

  • Continuous protection for PAS, EMR, PACS and LIS platforms without clinical disruption

  • Pre-drafted OAIC NDB notifications ready for privacy officer sign-off inside 72 hours

  • Evidence of medical-device network segregation for accreditation surveys

  • Research and clinical-trial data protected under Good Clinical Practice and TGA obligations

  • Board-level briefings framed around patient-safety outcomes, not technical metrics

Questions health and pharma customers ask first.

Do 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.

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Talk to an engineer - not a call centre. Most Vectra conversations start with a 30-minute technical briefing and end with a written plan.

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