External Attack Surface Management
Continuously discover domains, subdomains, services, technologies, certificates, misconfigurations and exposed infrastructure across healthcare environments.
ThreatCanary for Healthcare
Secure healthcare systems where downtime is not an option.
Healthcare environments connect patient portals, clinical platforms, appointment systems, cloud services, suppliers, remote access and legacy applications. ThreatCanary helps healthcare teams continuously discover exposed systems, validate meaningful weaknesses and prioritise the paths most likely to affect patient care, data or operational continuity.
Executive summary
Healthcare organisations face a different cyber security problem from ordinary enterprises. Patient care depends on availability, clinical systems must remain usable, and sensitive health information moves through patient portals, APIs, third-party platforms, appointment systems, remote access services and legacy applications. Ransomware exposure, patient data protection and supplier-connected clinical workflows make externally visible attack paths a healthcare resilience issue rather than a generic IT hygiene problem.
Attackers do not need to compromise the whole environment to create serious impact. A forgotten portal, exposed API, unmanaged remote access service, supplier-hosted application or vulnerable legacy system can become the first step in a path toward disruption, data exposure or operational pressure.
ThreatCanary helps healthcare teams move from vulnerability volume to validated exposure: what is externally visible, what is reachable, what is exploitable, and what could realistically affect clinical operations or patient trust.
Protected healthcare environments
Protect the systems patient care depends on.
ThreatCanary helps healthcare teams understand which patient portals, APIs, remote access services, suppliers and legacy systems could become real attack routes before they affect care.
Healthcare exposure plane
Patient portals, APIs, suppliers and clinical systems create one connected exposure plane.
ThreatCanary maps patient-facing services, healthcare APIs, remote access, supplier systems and legacy platforms into one evidence-backed view of healthcare exposure.
ThreatCanaryHealthcare exposure graph
Patient portalsSelf-service, booking and referral applications
Healthcare APIsIntegration endpoints and partner workflows
Remote accessVPN, support and administration paths
Supplier systemsVendor-operated clinical and business services
Legacy systemsOlder applications that remain care-critical
Clinical + supplier pathways
Patient trust boundary
Sector challenge
The sector challenge
Healthcare technology estates are often distributed across clinical, operational, administrative and third-party teams. Systems can remain online for years because clinical workflows depend on them, while new digital services are added around older platforms to support patients, referrers, insurers and partners.
This creates an attack surface that changes faster than annual testing or static asset inventories can follow. Security teams need to understand internet-facing exposure without disrupting care, overwhelming clinical teams or chasing every low-value scanner finding.
The real challenge is prioritisation. Which exposed systems could affect patient services? Which APIs touch sensitive workflows? Which supplier pathways sit outside normal governance? Which weaknesses are actually reachable from the internet?
Attack surface
The attack surface
Patient portals and self-service applicationsAppointment, referral and booking platformsClinical web applications and departmental systemsHealthcare APIs and integration endpointsRemote access, VPN and support servicesSupplier-hosted and managed-service platformsCloud workloads and storage exposureIdentity, SSO and access-control boundariesLegacy applications and unsupported technologiesConnected medical-adjacent systems and service portalsExposed test, staging and development environmentsForgotten domains, subdomains and campaign microsites
Why traditional security falls short
Why traditional security falls short
Annual penetration tests, compliance exercises and vulnerability scans are useful, but they rarely keep pace with the day-to-day changes in healthcare delivery. A new portal, supplier integration, cloud deployment or temporary service can create exposure long before the next scheduled assessment.
Traditional scanners often produce long lists of CVEs without enough context. They do not reliably explain whether a finding is externally reachable, whether it connects to patient data or clinical workflows, whether compensating controls matter, or whether the issue can be chained with identity, API or supplier exposure.
Healthcare teams need evidence that is safe to act on: validated exposure, operational context, realistic attack paths and clear remediation priority.
How ThreatCanary helps
ThreatCanary continuously discovers exposed healthcare assets, APIs, services and technologies across patient-facing and supplier-connected environments. It validates which weaknesses are reachable, identifies unmanaged assets, reasons across attack paths and produces evidence that security, platform and executive teams can use.
Instead of treating every vulnerability as equal, ThreatCanary helps healthcare teams focus on the paths most likely to affect patient care, sensitive data, service continuity or organisational trust.
Validated healthcare attack paths
From exposed portal to patient-impacting risk.
ThreatCanary helps healthcare teams validate which externally reachable weaknesses can be chained through identity, APIs, remote access or supplier pathways into meaningful operational risk.
ThreatCanaryValidated care risk
Patient portalExternally exposed digital front door
Identity boundarySSO, session and access-control logic
Clinical workflowReferrals, records and operational systems
Care impactAvailability, privacy and patient trust
Clinical + supplier pathways
Patient trust boundary
Key capabilities
Key capabilities
Patient Portal Exposure Discovery
Identify exposed patient-facing systems, forms, appointment services, referral workflows and digital front doors.
Healthcare API Security
Discover exposed, forgotten or risky APIs that support patient services, integrations, mobile applications and partner workflows.
Remote Access Exposure Monitoring
Surface VPNs, support portals, access gateways and externally reachable management services.
Supplier-Facing Exposure Monitoring
Identify vendor-operated systems, managed-service platforms and third-party assets that may sit outside normal inventory processes.
Exposure Validation
Validate whether weaknesses are visible, reachable and meaningful before remediation effort is spent on low-impact noise.
Attack Path Reasoning
Map how exposed services, APIs, identity paths, vulnerabilities and suppliers can combine into realistic healthcare risk.
Continuous Monitoring
Track exposure as patient services, cloud workloads, suppliers and digital platforms change over time.
Executive Cyber Risk Visibility
Translate technical exposure into evidence-backed reporting for healthcare executives, boards, risk committees and security leaders.
Sector-specific use cases
Sector-specific use cases
Outcomes
Outcomes
Reduced external exposure across patient-facing and clinical-adjacent services
Better prioritisation of exploitable weaknesses
Stronger ransomware preparedness and external attack path reduction
Improved protection of patient data, service continuity and trust
Clearer visibility across legacy, cloud and supplier-connected systems
More defensible remediation decisions backed by evidence
Executive reporting that connects technical exposure to healthcare impact
Buyer roles
Built for the teams responsible for reducing exposure.
CISOs and security executives
Evidence-backed visibility of external risk, remediation priorities and exposure reduction across healthcare services.
Security operations teams
Continuous discovery, validation and prioritisation of exposed assets, APIs and vulnerabilities.
Clinical technology and platform teams
Actionable insight into exposed systems, service dependencies and risky configurations without unnecessary noise.
Application and API security teams
Better visibility of patient portals, integrations, access-control boundaries and business logic exposure.
Risk and governance leaders
Reporting that connects technical findings to patient safety, privacy, operational continuity and compliance outcomes.
Suppliers and delivery partners
Shared evidence that helps teams remediate the right exposure across managed and integrated services.
Common questions
Questions teams ask before they commit.
Direct answers on scope, evidence, safety controls and how ThreatCanary differs from tools you already run.
01How does ThreatCanary help healthcare organisations reduce ransomware exposure?
ThreatCanary helps healthcare organisations reduce ransomware exposure by discovering externally visible systems, remote access services, legacy applications, supplier-hosted platforms and exploitable weaknesses that could provide an initial foothold or support movement toward care-critical environments.
02Can ThreatCanary discover exposed patient portals and healthcare APIs?
ThreatCanary can discover exposed patient portals, appointment systems, referral workflows, healthcare APIs and integration endpoints, then validate whether weaknesses are reachable and relevant to patient data, clinical workflows or operational continuity.
03How does ThreatCanary prioritise risks to patient care?
ThreatCanary prioritises healthcare risk by connecting validated exposure to patient-facing systems, clinical workflows, sensitive data, suppliers and service continuity. That context helps teams focus on weaknesses that could realistically affect care delivery or patient trust.
04How does ThreatCanary help with supplier-connected healthcare systems?
ThreatCanary helps identify supplier-hosted and managed-service systems that may sit outside normal healthcare inventories, then connects those assets to exposure, exploitability evidence, ownership and remediation workflows.