Clearwater Helps Organizations Strengthen Cyber Defenses with New OCR-Quality Technical Testing Services

Clearwater Compliance, a top-ranked, award-winning healthcare cyber risk management solutions platform provider, has announced it is now offering technical testing services to help healthcare providers and their partners improve the effectiveness and efficacy of their controls and meet HIPAA Security Rule technical evaluation requirements at 45 CFR §164.308(a)(8). Clearwater’s newest service and methodologies are based on guidance from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), and the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and other industry standards for vulnerability scans, penetration tests, social engineering testing and web application testing. The new service focuses on helping organizations identify and remediate critical vulnerabilities and meet compliance requirements.

Clearwater Compliance is introducing Technical Testing Services: cutting-edge tools, comprehensive manual testing, and unparalleled, real-world technology experience to help customers perform vulnerability assessments and technical testing.

With Clearwater’s Technical Testing Services, healthcare organizations can perform a battery of evaluations including:

Internal and External Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing
Internal and External Vulnerability Assessment
Wireless LAN Security Validation
Web Application Testing
Network Architecture Assessment
Security Awareness Assessment

Clearwater’s experienced security experts will lead an engagement that will help a client through

Scoping and Discovery
Assessments
Risk Determination
Reporting, Guidance, and Remediation

“Every day, healthcare organizations are seeing more and more attempts at hacking into their systems,” said Bob Chaput, CEO of Clearwater Compliance. “One of our large, national healthcare customers recently told us that in the course of 24 hours, they had blocked more than 36 million unauthorized network access attempts, and it only takes one successful attempt to cause havoc. Technical Testing Services is a natural addition to our portfolio of SaaS-based software and professional services, and adds an important product in our growing suite of cybersecurity services.”

All of Clearwater’s software and solutions are exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association. The company has a proven track record for helping hospitals and health systems of all sizes—including over 40 of the top Integrated Delivery Networks in the country—with today’s evolving risks. Clearwater’s comprehensive portfolio of state hospital association endorsements includes thousands of hospitals. Clearwater offers both cybersecurity software as well as professional services, helping its clients not only defend against current cyber threats but also helping them build self-sufficiency to defend against future threats.

About Clearwater Compliance, LLC

Clearwater Compliance, LLC is a top-ranked, award-winning healthcare cyber risk management and regulatory compliance company. As the leading strategic partner to hospitals and health systems, its mission is to assist in successfully managing healthcare’s evolving cybersecurity risks, compliance requirements and, ultimately, ensure patient safety. A 2017 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company, the 2018 Best in KLAS winner in Cybersecurity Advisory Services, exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association as well as numerous state hospital associations, Clearwater solutions have been deployed within hundreds of hospitals and health systems, Fortune 100 organizations and federal government institutions. More information about Clearwater Compliance is at http://www.Clearwatercompliance.com.