Healthcare

Context

Healthcare organisations manage sensitive personal data under strict confidentiality and continuity expectations. Cyberxperts has conducted ISO 27001 maturity assessments and business continuity and disaster recovery audits across healthcare service providers, including work on behalf of a major medical scheme network. A security review should consider how patient and administrative information moves between staff, systems and service providers. Access to clinical records, email accounts, shared devices and backups are useful areas to discuss, alongside the services that must remain available during disruption. An assessment helps distinguish documented policies from controls that are actually in place and identifies where further evidence is needed. Risk assessments can establish a baseline and prioritise gaps; compliance services support the relevant controls and documentation; awareness training addresses the everyday handling of sensitive information. Prepare an outline of your locations, key systems, existing security arrangements and continuity concerns before a consultation. This helps define the scope without asking you to send patient records through a general enquiry form. Where specialist systems or external providers are involved, include those dependencies in the discussion. The services below can be considered separately or together according to the agreed scope. A short self-assessment is also available as an initial indication of maturity before a more detailed review.

Relevant services