Hospitals, clinics and health plans sit on the data attackers value most: medical records, insurance details and identity information that can be sold or used for fraud for years. When ransomware takes down an EHR, the damage goes past the IT department. Ambulances get diverted, surgeries are postponed and clinicians go back to paper. Health systems also run thousands of connected medical devices that cannot take a security agent, plus a long tail of vendors with access to patient data.
Attackers are now using AI to write convincing phishing emails that imitate payers, labs and EHR vendors, and to speed up the search for exposed systems. General security vendors can help, but many hospitals get better results from healthcare cybersecurity companies that already know HIPAA risk analysis, OCR investigations, clinical workflows and medical device security.
The ten companies below either work exclusively in healthcare or run a dedicated healthcare practice with named clinical products. We grouped them by what they do best: consulting and managed security, healthcare third-party risk management, identity and access, and medical device protection. For deeper compliance support, see our list of HIPAA compliance consulting firms, and for testing, our roundup of HIPAA healthcare penetration testing companies.
Healthcare Cybersecurity Companies At A Glance
Company
Headquarters
Best For
Core Services
Clearwater
Nashville, USA
Hospitals and medical groups that want risk analysis, compliance and managed security from one firm
Biomed and security teams prioritizing medical device fixes and recalls
IoMT inventory, vulnerability prioritization, FDA recall tracking, pre-purchase risk, segmentation
Intraprise Health
Reston, USA
Ambulatory groups, payers and business associates needing HIPAA assessments and vCISO help
HIPAA One assessments, BluePrint Protect platform, vCISO, HITRUST, third-party risk
CloudWave
Marlborough, USA
Community and rural hospitals that want hosting and managed security from a healthcare-only provider
Managed security, MDR and EDR, Sensato medical device security, EHR hosting, disaster recovery
Best Healthcare Cybersecurity Companies For 2027
1. Clearwater — OCR-Aligned Risk Analysis Plus 24/7 Managed Security
Clearwater is a Nashville-based firm that focuses on healthcare cybersecurity, privacy and compliance. Its client list spans hospitals and health systems, regional and critical access hospitals, physician practice management groups, digital health companies, medical device makers, health plans and the attorneys and investors who work with them. Services cover OCR-aligned risk analysis, 405(d) HICP assessments, vendor risk management as a service, virtual CISO support, privacy programs and certification work for HITRUST, SOC 2, PCI DSS and CMMC.
What sets Clearwater apart is breadth. Through its acquisitions of TECH LOCK and CynergisTek, it added managed detection and response, log management, endpoint detection, vulnerability management and ransomware readiness work to its consulting base, and it now runs managed security with 24/7 monitoring and incident response. Its IRM|Pro software handles risk analysis down to the application level, which helps organizations answer the question OCR asks after a breach: did you actually assess the risk? It suits health systems that want one partner for HIPAA risk analysis, ongoing monitoring and audit preparation.
Fortified Health Security is a managed security service provider dedicated to healthcare, based in Brentwood, Tennessee. It works with hospitals and health systems, provider groups, health plans and healthcare technology companies, and it splits its services into two groups. Advisory services include virtual CISO, security risk assessments, third-party risk management, advanced penetration testing and red teaming, managed phishing and awareness training, and HITRUST services.
On the threat defense side, Fortified offers managed XDR, managed EDR, managed SIEM, vulnerability threat management, attack surface monitoring, incident response programs and emergency response. Its managed connected medical device security service is the piece many hospitals look for first, since infusion pumps, imaging systems and monitors are hard to patch and often sit on flat networks. Because it serves only healthcare, its analysts already know the difference between normal clinical traffic and an actual problem, which cuts down on false alarms. Fortified is a good fit for community and regional hospitals that cannot staff a 24/7 security team and want managed security for hospitals backed by healthcare advisors.
3. Meditology Services — HITRUST Certification Support Plus AI SafeGuard Penetration Testing
Meditology Services is an Atlanta-based firm that serves healthcare providers, payers and healthcare technology suppliers. Its work covers HITRUST certification and SOC 2 attestation support, HIPAA consulting, PCI and CMMC compliance, 405(d) and NIST CSF assessments, and OCR compliance and investigation support. It also runs security and privacy risk assessments, virtual CISO staffing, medical device and IoT security services, and resilience programs with tabletop testing.
Meditology stands out for how early it has built an AI practice for healthcare. It offers AI governance, AI program advisory, AI security assessments, AI certification support and what it calls AI SafeGuard penetration testing, alongside conventional vulnerability scanning, application, cloud and network testing. That matters as hospitals deploy ambient scribes, chat assistants and AI-assisted coding tools that touch PHI. Its third-party risk management practice covers program strategy and managed services. Meditology is a strong choice for health tech vendors chasing HITRUST to win hospital contracts, and for providers who want one firm to handle compliance, testing and AI risk together.
4. Censinet — RiskOps Platform For Healthcare Third-Party Risk Management
Censinet is a Boston-based software company focused on healthcare risk. Its RiskOps platform combines standardized assessments, workflows and risk signals so health systems can manage vendor and supplier risk, enterprise risk, and systemic risk across patient data, medical records, research, medical devices and the supply chain. The company names customers such as Intermountain Health, Emory Healthcare, Baptist Health and Tower Health.
Healthcare third-party risk management is where Censinet earns its place on this list. Large health systems may have thousands of vendors with access to PHI, and the traditional approach of emailing spreadsheets and chasing questionnaires does not scale. Censinet uses standardized assessments that vendors can share across many hospital customers, plus continuous monitoring, so security teams spend less time collecting answers and more time acting on them. It also offers AI governance oversight and peer benchmarking, including a 2026 healthcare cybersecurity and AI benchmarking study, which helps CISOs show the board where they stand. Censinet is best for mid-size and large providers whose vendor program has outgrown spreadsheets.
5. Imprivata — Clinical Identity, Privacy Monitoring And EPCS Built For Hospitals
Imprivata is a digital identity company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with a long history in healthcare. Its healthcare products include patient privacy monitoring, drug diversion monitoring, medical device access management, biometric patient authentication and electronic prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS). It also targets clinical workflow problems such as fast access to EHRs and shared workstations and kiosks.
Identity is one of the most common ways attackers get into a hospital, through stolen passwords, shared logins and weak access to clinical systems. Imprivata addresses this without slowing clinicians down, which is the reason so many security programs fail on the floor. Its privacy monitoring watches EHR access for snooping and unusual record lookups, a frequent source of HIPAA complaints, while drug diversion monitoring helps pharmacy and compliance teams spot suspicious medication activity. EPCS support helps prescribers meet DEA two-factor requirements. Imprivata is a good fit for hospitals that want to strengthen identity and access controls in clinical areas without adding friction for nurses and physicians.
6. Claroty — xDome For Healthcare Covering Medical And Building Devices
Claroty is a New York-headquartered company that secures cyber-physical systems, including industrial controllers, building systems and medical devices. Its healthcare offering, Claroty xDome for Healthcare, builds an inventory of connected clinical assets, identifies exposures and monitors for threats in real time, with the stated goal of protecting patient safety and clinical continuity. Healthcare Secure Access adds controlled remote access for the vendors who service those devices.
Medical device security is a hard problem for hospitals because devices run old operating systems, cannot take agents and are often maintained by the manufacturer rather than IT. Claroty’s approach is to give biomedical engineering and security teams a shared view of what is on the network, what risk each device carries and which fixes, such as segmentation, will reduce that risk without disrupting care. Its coverage of building management and other operational systems is a plus for health systems that also run energy and facilities equipment. Claroty suits large hospitals and integrated delivery networks that want one platform for medical device and building system visibility.
7. Ordr — Agentless IoMT Discovery Linked To Automated Segmentation
Ordr is a Santa Clara, California company that discovers, classifies and secures connected devices across IT, IoT, OT and IoMT. Healthcare is its first listed industry, and its platform is built to protect connected medical equipment such as IV pumps and imaging systems that cannot run security agents. It names healthcare customers including Cleveland Clinic and Christus Health, and it supports HIPAA compliance reporting.
What makes Ordr useful is the step after discovery. Its platform connects to more than 130 tools, including firewalls, NAC, SIEM and vulnerability scanners, so the device profiles it builds can drive segmentation policies and enforcement rather than sitting in a dashboard. For a hospital, that means a vulnerable imaging workstation can be limited to the systems it actually needs to talk to. Ordr also offers an AI assistant, ORDR IQ, that lets analysts ask plain-language questions about assets, threats and compliance. It is a strong option for hospitals that already own firewalls and NAC and want medical device security that puts those tools to work.
8. Asimily — IoMT Risk Prioritization With FDA Recall And Pre-Purchase Checks
Asimily is an IoT and medical device security company with its US office in Sunnyvale, California. Its platform provides asset inventory, vulnerability prioritization, segmentation orchestration, threat detection, IoT patching and configuration control. Healthcare is a core market: Asimily describes a large hospital network with more than 15 sites using the platform to inventory connected medical devices and manage remediation.
Asimily’s healthcare-specific features are what put it on this list. It tracks FDA recalls and security advisories against the devices a hospital actually owns, measures device utilization and offers pre-purchase risk checks so procurement can avoid buying equipment with known problems. Its focus on prioritization helps teams deal with the reality that most hospitals cannot patch every vulnerable device, so they need to know which few fixes, such as a single configuration change or a segmentation rule, remove the most risk. Asimily also offers incident response readiness with packet capture. It is a good fit for hospitals where clinical engineering and security share responsibility for the device fleet.
9. Intraprise Health — HIPAA One Assessments Paired With vCISO Program Management
Intraprise Health, based in Reston, Virginia, combines software and services for healthcare security and compliance. Its BluePrint Protect platform covers integrated risk management and third-party risk management, and its HIPAA One product handles HIPAA security and privacy assessments. The company serves acute care, ambulatory practices, payors and business associates, including healthcare technology vendors.
The draw for smaller and mid-size organizations is that Intraprise pairs its tools with people. Its services include risk management strategy and remediation, vCISO security program management, cybersecurity assessments and HITRUST certification support. Many ambulatory groups and business associates know they need a documented HIPAA risk analysis every year but lack the staff to run one well, then struggle to turn findings into a plan. Intraprise can run the assessment in software, then help manage the remediation program. It is a practical choice for physician groups, specialty practices and vendors to hospitals that want structured HIPAA risk analysis and ongoing guidance without hiring a full-time security leader.
10. CloudWave — Healthcare-Only Cloud Hosting With Sensato Managed Security
CloudWave is a Marlborough, Massachusetts provider of cloud, cybersecurity and managed services built exclusively for healthcare. It hosts EHR applications, including MEDITECH, and offers disaster recovery, backup, archiving, managed IT and clinical service desk support. In 2022 it acquired Sensato Cybersecurity, which brought a managed security program, medical device cybersecurity and a package designed for critical access and rural hospitals.
The combination of hosting and security is CloudWave’s strength. Many community hospitals run their EHR on aging local servers with thin IT staff, which makes ransomware recovery slow and painful. CloudWave can move those systems into its healthcare cloud and wrap them in managed security, including managed EDR and MDR, HIPAA security risk assessments, penetration testing, incident response programs, tabletop simulations and a 24/7 security operations center. It says it serves more than 250 hospitals and healthcare organizations. CloudWave is a good fit for small and rural hospitals that want managed security for hospitals and resilient hosting from a single partner that understands their EHR.
How To Choose A Healthcare Cybersecurity Company
Most healthcare organizations end up with more than one of these partners: a consulting or managed security firm, plus specialized tools for vendor risk, identity or medical devices. These questions will help you decide where to start.
What Problem Are We Actually Trying To Solve First?
Be specific. If your last OCR risk analysis is out of date, start with a consulting firm. If you have no one watching alerts at night, prioritize managed detection and response. If biomed cannot tell you how many infusion pumps are on the network, start with medical device visibility. Trying to buy everything at once usually stalls the project.
Have They Worked With Organizations Like Ours?
A 25-bed critical access hospital, a 40-hospital system and a digital health startup have very different needs. Ask for examples of similar clients, the EHR and device environments they supported, and what the first 90 days of the engagement looked like.
Will They Help Us Through An OCR Inquiry Or Breach?
Ask whether the firm has supported OCR investigations, what documentation it produces and how its incident response works in practice. Review our guide to data breach response plans before the conversation so you know which questions to press on.
How Do They Handle Medical Devices And Clinical Downtime?
Any change on a clinical network can affect patient care. Ask how the company tests changes, coordinates with biomedical engineering and device manufacturers, and avoids disrupting devices that cannot be patched or rebooted on demand.
What Will It Cost To Keep Running?
Get a written list of what is included in the monthly fee or subscription, what counts as extra work and how pricing grows with beds, devices or vendors. Ask how the tools integrate with what you already own so you do not pay twice for overlapping features.
Conclusion
Healthcare cybersecurity companies fall into a few clear groups. Clearwater, Fortified Health Security, Meditology, Intraprise Health and CloudWave combine healthcare consulting with managed security or compliance services. Censinet handles healthcare third-party risk management at scale. Imprivata secures clinical identity and access, while Claroty, Ordr and Asimily focus on medical device security.
Start with the gap that would hurt patient care most if it failed, ask each shortlisted firm to walk through a realistic ransomware or device scenario in your environment, and choose the partner whose answers are specific to how your organization delivers care.
