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title: "Why Airlock Digital : Secure Healthcare and Life Sciences"
description: "Protect endpoints and secure healthcare and life sciences to safeguard patient data, secure medical devices and comply with HIPAA, GDPR, and FDA"
source: https://www.airlockdigital.com/industries/secure-healthcare-life-sciences
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Why Airlock Digital : Industry

# Secure Healthcare & Life Sciences with Airlock Digital

Proactive endpoint protection for sensitive environments

The Healthcare and Life Sciences industry faces unique security challenges, including managing sensitive patient data, critical research, and regulated operations. These organizations are prime targets for cyberattacks, including ransomware and insider threats. Airlock Digital delivers robust application control capabilities tailored to these high-stakes environments. By enforcing a Deny by Default security model and granular allowlisting and blocklisting controls, Airlock Digital ensures healthcare organizations can operate securely and helps support compliance with industry regulations.

Protect Patient Data

Safeguard sensitive health information and research data with proactive application control.

Ensure Operational Continuity

Protect critical IT and OT systems, such as medical devices and laboratory equipment, from malware and unauthorized software.

Streamline Compliance

Meet industry regulations like HIPAA, GDPR, and FDA guidelines with comprehensive audit logs and reporting.

Secure Legacy Systems

Protect outdated healthcare infrastructure critical to patient care and research operations.

Enhance Cyber Resilience

Reduce risks from ransomware and zero-day attacks to maintain secure and resilient operations.

Protect Against Insider Threats

Actively block usage of any applications, scripts, or system tools - including LOLBins - with granular precision.

## How Airlock Digital Supports Healthcare & Life Sciences

### Deny by Default Security

Prevent unauthorized applications, scripts, and processes from executing, reducing the attack surface.

### Granular Application Control

Define trusted applications at the file, path, publisher, or process level for tailored security.

### Real-Time Monitoring

Gain real-time visibility into endpoint execution attempts to address anomalies swiftly.

### Precision Blocklisting

Define which files you want to block by using a variety of launch conditions - including path, product name, publisher, version, user, command line, operating system and more - providing precise control over what is denied execution.

### Comprehensive Audit Trails

Maintain detailed, immutable logs of all endpoint executions and execution-attempts to simplify compliance and support incident investigations.

### Integrated File Intelligence

Leverage real-time VirusTotal intelligence to understand file histories and reputations, in support of effective allowlist development.

## Streamline and De-Risk Compliance

Airlock Digital provides the technical controls healthcare and pharmaceutical companies need to enforce strict and precision application control in a scalable, efficient manner. With real-time  execution monitoring, comprehensive audit controls, and secure integrations with the industry’s leading cybersecurity and reporting tools, Airlock Digital was designed to help security professionals streamline and de-risk regulatory compliance.

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## Keep Exploring

### Healthcare & Life Sciences Datasheet

[Read Now](https://www.airlockdigital.com/hubfs/Datasheets/Datasheet%20-%20Airlock%20Digital%20for%20Healthcare%20%26%20Life%20Sciences.pdf)

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