When imaging data is held hostage, care stops. This is how you keep it yours.
RackTop BrickStor SP brings patented Active Defense to the Merative Merge enterprise imaging stack. Together they secure X-rays, MRIs, CT scans, and the full longitudinal imaging repository against ransomware and data theft, in real time, inside a data-centric Zero Trust architecture.
1 min RPO
Recovery point
3 min RTO
Recovery time
$10M+
Avg healthcare breach (highest of any sector)
HIPAA aligned
Compliance
Healthcare has been the most targeted sector for ransomware for over a decade.
Attacks do not just compromise data. They cancel elective procedures, divert ambulances, and push staff back to paper. Medical images, clinical documents, and research files sit on file shares and object stores that endpoint and network tools were never designed to protect. That unstructured data is the soft target, and it is exactly where BrickStor SP closes the gap.
Ransomware
Encryption stopped before care stops
Behavior-based detection identifies ransomware activity against imaging repositories in real time and isolates it at the storage processor, so DICOM studies stay available and clinical workflows keep running.
Data theft
PHI exfiltration blocked in real time
Unusual access and bulk movement of patient records and imaging data trigger instant alerts and automated response, catching an attempt to remove PHI as it happens rather than in a post breach investigation.
Insider risk
Trusted accounts held to account
User Behavior Analytics with client IP visibility and privilege access analysis surface compromised accounts and abnormal behavior from the clinicians, vendors, and admins who already have access.
A secure longitudinal imaging repository, built on data-centric Zero Trust
The partnership pairs Merative's industry-leading enterprise imaging and Vendor Neutral Archive with RackTop's BrickStor Security Platform. Merative manages the imaging workflow. BrickStor SP secures the data underneath it, with Active Defense applied to every study, document, and object as it is written and read.
BrickStor SP complements the infrastructure you already run. It deploys on premises, as a VM on any hypervisor, on partner hardware, or in the cloud, adding Cyberstorage to your existing PACS and VNA environment with no rip and replace.
- ✓Integrates into the Merative Merge enterprise imaging stack.
- ✓Native, integrated Active Defense across NFS, SMB, S3, and Web Drive.
- ✓Deploys on prem, in a VM, on partner hardware, or in the cloud.
- ✓Maps to the technical and administrative safeguards of the HIPAA Security Rule.
Zero Trust data layer · enterprise imaging
Merative Merge · enterprise imaging
VNA · PACS workflow · longitudinal repository
BrickStor SP · Active Defense
Detect · Stop · Recover · ImmutaVault · Audit
Storage, anywhere it lives
On prem · VM · partner hardware · cloud
What Active Defense does the moment imaging data is attacked
Protection runs at the storage layer, on every read and write to your imaging repository, not as a nightly job you hope succeeds.
01
Detect
See the anomaly
An anomaly detection engine watches access patterns and user behavior in real time, flagging ransomware activity, abnormal movement of imaging data, and compromised accounts the moment they deviate.
02
Stop
Cut it off
Suspicious activity is isolated at the storage processor and reported instantly, containing the incident while uncompromised clinicians and systems stay online and imaging workflows keep moving.
03
Recover
Restore only what was hit
Intelligent Bulk Recovery auto-identifies the last known good version of each affected study and restores only those files, with cryptographic verification. Recovery is measured in minutes, not the days typical of tape.
File and object, protected the same way
BrickStor SP delivers file and object storage across all four protocols with unified Active Defense and audit. DICOM repositories, pathology slides, and large research datasets stream over NFS and SMB at the throughput PACS workflows demand, without giving up inline behavioral monitoring or immutable preservation of the underlying studies.
NFS
Network File System
SMB
Server Message Block
S3
Object storage
Web Drive
Browser access, no client install
More than storage. A defense posture that maps to how care actually works.
ImmutaVault air-gapped copies
ImmutaVault creates a logically isolated, virtual air-gapped copy of critical imaging data. It cannot be reached, modified, or deleted by an attacker who has compromised production or stolen administrative credentials.
Context-aware access with ABAC
Access decisions weigh role plus department, device posture, and on-network versus remote VDI. With Sentris, that same attribute-based control extends across SMB and browser-based Web Drive, with no static group sprawl to manage.
HIPAA-aligned audit and evidence
Immutable audit telemetry records every access to PHI and imaging data, mapping directly to the technical and administrative safeguards of the HIPAA Security Rule and giving compliance teams audit-ready visibility.
Stories of Imaging Resilience
Real accounts of how healthcare organizations keep imaging data available, recoverable, and trustworthy through ransomware and insider threats. See what Active Defense looks like in practice.
Defend the imaging data your clinicians depend on
See BrickStor SP defending a Merative Merge imaging environment against a live ransomware attack, and what real-time protection of PHI and imaging data looks like end to end.
BrickStor SP, Active Defense, and ImmutaVault are RackTop technologies. Merative and Merge are trademarks of Merative L.P.