Ensure Continuous Patient Care

Solve Healthcare's Toughest Cybersecurity Challenges

Healthcare Organizations Face Unprecedented Cyberattacks

Protect Against Ransomware Breaches

  • Proactively prevent adanced attacks from exploiting breaches and corrupting server workloads.

Protect Legacy and Out-Of-Support Applications and Workloads

  • Reduce vulnerable attack surface by securing workloads even if they are no longer receiving security updates, and without needing access to the source code..

Eliminate Panic Patching

  • Shift from a reactive to a proactive approach to patch management, applying patches on your schedule thus allowing for a thorough test and deployment process.

Typical Legacy Workload Security Challenges include:

  • Support has slowed or ceased with obsolescence or vendor is charging very high fees to support end-of-life products
  • Legacy applications were written when application security was simple or non-existent
  • New vulnerabilities and the sophistication of attack method continuously evolves, reaching voluminous levels
  • Digital transformation is an arduous process taking months or years to complete as risk remains
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How Virsec Protects Legacy Workloads

Virsec Security Platform allows you to protect applications running in Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2 SP1, 2012, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS 6.5, 6.7, 6.10, and SUSE 12 with strict application controls and runtime analysis. It covers vulnerabilities exposed due to the time between patching and will act as a patch-bridge for Windows Server between upgrades. The implementation will continuously protect the entire software stack across all runtime components, including files, executables, processes, and libraries that allow attacks to build in memory as systems execute.

Eliminate Panic Patching

Unpatched vulnerabilities are the most prominent attack vectors exploited by cybercriminal groups. Every time a new security patch is issued by a vendor, IT and Security teams must rush to deploy the patch across several server workloads. As the volume and velocity of patches increase, competing priorities place the IT Operations, SOC, and triage teams in constant high-pressure situations. This rushed, unplanned manual patching is disruptive to the business, error-prone, and overrides the planned release cycles. It also does not allow for proper patch testing and validation

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How Virsec Alleviates Panic Patching

Virsec Security Platform allows you to protect applications running in Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2 SP1, 2012, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS 6.5, 6.7, 6.10, and SUSE 12 with strict application controls and runtime analysis. It covers vulnerabilities exposed due to the time between patching and will act as a patch-bridge for Windows Server between upgrades. The implementation will continuously protect the entire software stack across all runtime components, including files, executables, processes, and libraries that allow attacks to build in memory as systems execute.

Server Hardening
With automated allow listing and granular application control policies, server workloads are protected from external attempts to inject malicious code or hijack processes or files until the patch can be deployed.
Automatically Contain the Vulnerability
Stop lateral move through cross-site scripting (stored XSS) to prevent infiltration and weaponization.
Patch on Your Terms
Avoid panic patching due to a critical security incident knowing only authorized applications, dependencies, and bills of materials of processes and files will be enforced at runtime. Patch once analysis, testing and deployment plans are fully vetted.
Application Visibility
With auto-discovery of applications IT and Security organizations now have insights into which applications are running on server workloads for risk assessment and prioritization.

Log4J Vulnerability 
for Healthcare Applications

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How Virsec Stopped Log4J Attacks

  • The first malicious action occurs at Step 3 as the LDAP Server reaches out to the attacker’s server. Virsec identifies that as an RFI vulnerability.
  • At Step 4, the response from the bad actor server triggers a malicious java class to get loaded. Virsec detects this malicious class load directly into memory.
  • Once the malicious class gets loaded in memory, it could unleash more file-based or fileless malware. Virsec Security Platform for Host, otherwise 
    known as, VSP-Host (Process Monitoring and ACP Engine), stops those attacks without even one instruction from such malware executing.

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Reduce Noise

Other solutions that rely on analysis generate so many false positive alerts that it overwhelms teams. With a positive security model and automated allow listing, you can protect legacy systems AND avoid all the alert fatigue.

Reduce Risk

Legacy applications and workloads present an open and highly vulnerable attack surface to cyber criminals. Install continuous protection for host operating systems and applications with Virsec mitigating security controls to protect legacy environments.

Reduce Cost

There are few alternatives to reducing cyber risk from legacy workloads:
(1) pay large amounts for Extended Security Updates (ESUs) and one-off security patches,
(2) do nothing or
(3) explore Virsec's mitigating controls. Option 3 delivers the highest level of protection at the most affordable investment level.
Read Our Buyer's Guide for Zero-Trust Application Workload Protection
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Learn More about Virsec’s Protection for Windows 2012