Cyber-Resilient Storage for Healthcare
Healthcare organizations are the number one target for ransomware, and the cost of a breach is the highest of any industry. BrickStor SP protects patient data with active defense, immutable recovery, and audit-ready controls built for HIPAA.
See Active Defense protect healthcare data
A recorded demo of BrickStor SP detecting and stopping a ransomware attack against medical imaging — preserving patient data and clinical continuity.
Healthcare is under siege
Healthcare has been the most targeted sector for ransomware for over a decade. The average cost of a healthcare data breach now exceeds $10 million, the highest of any industry. Attacks do not just compromise data — they disrupt patient care, delay surgical procedures, divert ambulances, and shut down pharmacy and lab systems. In the most severe cases, ransomware in healthcare is a patient safety crisis.
Unstructured data is the soft target. Medical images, clinical documents, research files, and administrative records sit on file shares and object stores that traditional endpoint and network security tools were not designed to protect. This is where attackers focus — and where BrickStor SP closes the gap.
$10.93M
Average healthcare breach cost (IBM)
#1
Most targeted industry for ransomware
100+ days
Average time to identify and contain a breach
What BrickStor SP brings to every deployment
Four patented capabilities at the core of every BrickStor SP deployment. The sections below cover what each one means inside a healthcare environment specifically.
Active Defense →
Patented inline detection and response in the storage data path. Ransomware, insider misuse, and bulk exfiltration get stopped in under a second — before the write completes.
ABAC →
Attribute-based access control evaluated on every SMB, NFS, S3, and Web Drive operation. Data Centric Zero Trust — clearance, program, device, network, and behavior on each request.
ImmutaVault →
Patented virtual air gap built into the storage system. Immutable, indelible, isolated recovery copies that survive even attackers with administrative privilege.
Intelligent Bulk Remediation →
Patented surgical file-level recovery. After an incident, restore only the files the attacker touched in minutes — not the entire volume from snapshot over days.
How the pillars translate to clinical environments
The above pillars apply everywhere — these are what they look like when the data is PHI, the SLA is care continuity, and the regulator is OCR.
HIPAA Security Rule audit map
Every file open, modification, and permission change against PHI is captured immutably and maps directly to §164.312(b). The audit pipeline an OCR investigator wants is what your storage already produces — no separate file-audit add-on, no quarterly evidence scramble.
Care continuity is the SLA
BrickStor SP's recovery is measured in minutes, not the days typical of tape — and Intelligent Bulk Remediation restores only the files an attack touched. Surgical schedules, pharmacy queues, lab orders, and ED ambulance flow keep running.
Medical imaging and PACS at line rate
DICOM repositories, pathology slides, and large research imagery datasets stream over NFS and SMB at the throughput PACS workflows need — without sacrificing inline behavioral monitoring or immutable preservation of the underlying study files.
Per-department ABAC for clinical context
Access decisions evaluate role plus department, plus device posture, plus on-network vs. remote VDI — so a labor-and-delivery nurse, a referring physician, and a biomedical engineer each see exactly the records their context permits, with no static group-membership sprawl to manage.
HIPAA Security Rule Alignment
BrickStor SP maps directly to the technical and administrative safeguards required by the HIPAA Security Rule. These are not aspirational claims — they are capabilities built into the storage platform.
- Access Controls (§164.312(a))
ABAC enforces role-based and context-aware access to electronic PHI at the storage layer.
- Audit Controls (§164.312(b))
Immutable audit logs record all access to and activity on files containing PHI.
- Integrity Controls (§164.312(c))
Immutable snapshots and tamper-evident logging protect PHI from unauthorized alteration.
- Transmission Security (§164.312(e))
Encrypted data in transit and at rest, with granular control over replication and sharing.
- Contingency Planning (§164.308(a)(7))
Rapid recovery, immutable backups, and cyber vaulting ensure data availability after an incident.
Storage Security Is Patient Safety
When ransomware hits a hospital, care delivery stops. Clinicians lose access to imaging, lab results, and patient histories. Elective procedures are canceled, emergency departments divert, and staff revert to paper. BrickStor SP helps ensure clinical data remains available, recoverable, and trustworthy — because storage resilience is a patient care issue.
Clinical applications and imaging systems remain available during and after an attack
Recovery measured in minutes preserves surgical schedules, pharmacy operations, and emergency workflows
Audit-ready evidence reduces the burden of HIPAA compliance assessments and breach investigations
Storage-layer security closes the gap that endpoint and network tools leave open for unstructured data
Who Benefits
CISO & Privacy Officer
Demonstrate HIPAA compliance with immutable audit evidence. Reduce breach risk at the storage layer where PHI actually lives.
CIO
Consolidate ransomware defense, compliance controls, and data recovery into a single storage platform without adding operational complexity.
Clinical IT
Keep EHR, PACS, and clinical file shares available for care delivery. Recover from incidents without rebuilding from tape.
Compliance & Risk
Map storage controls directly to HIPAA Security Rule requirements. Export audit logs for assessors without manual collection.
Frequently Asked Questions
- BrickStor SP uses behavioral analytics at the storage layer to identify ransomware activity in real time. It monitors file access patterns for anomalies consistent with encryption, mass deletion, and exfiltration attempts, and can automatically block the offending process before clinical data is compromised.
- Yes. BrickStor SP provides immutable audit trails, granular access controls, integrity protection, and contingency planning capabilities that map directly to the HIPAA Security Rule technical safeguards under §164.312 and the administrative safeguards under §164.308.
- BrickStor SP supports sub-minute recovery point objectives and bulk parallel restore operations. Clinical file systems, imaging repositories, and application data can be restored in minutes rather than the days or weeks typical of tape-based recovery.
- Yes. BrickStor SP secures unstructured data of all types, including DICOM medical images, pathology files, and other clinical media. Active defense monitors these file shares in real time, and immutable snapshots preserve clean copies for recovery.
- ImmutaVault creates a virtual air-gapped copy of critical data that is logically isolated from production systems. Unlike standard backups, ImmutaVault data cannot be reached, modified, or deleted by an attacker who has compromised the production network or gained administrative credentials.
Protect Patient Data with Cyber-Resilient Storage
See how BrickStor SP defends healthcare organizations against ransomware while simplifying HIPAA compliance.