Healthcare, finance, retail, and manufacturing IT & cybersecurity

Hospitals, clinics, payers, and digital health companies face a threat landscape where downtime is measured in patient outcomes. HIPAA isn't optional, medical devices can't be patched on a normal cadence, and ransomware crews specifically target healthcare because the urgency to restore operations creates leverage. The HHS HIPAA Security Rule is the baseline, but meeting the baseline isn't the same as being defensible during an OCR investigation.

We run HIPAA-aligned security operations across every client environment we touch in this vertical. That includes signed BAAs on day one, ePHI discovery and classification across EHRs (Epic, Cerner, Meditech, athenaClinicals, NextGen), DLP for protected health information across email and cloud storage, and medical device segmentation that works inside FDA constraints. Our SOC-as-a-Service tracks TTPs specifically targeting healthcare entities, and the detection content is tuned against HICP 405(d) and MITRE ATT&CK techniques we see actively used against hospitals.

For HITRUST CSF certification, we operate the program from gap assessment through assessor engagement. Continuous evidence collection replaces the audit scramble most healthcare compliance teams live with every cycle. See our healthcare HIPAA case study for how this plays out in practice, or explore the healthcare industry page for the full service breakdown.

Banks, credit unions, wealth management firms, insurance carriers, and fintech platforms operate under layered regulatory pressure from FFIEC, SEC, FINRA, GLBA, and NYDFS Part 500. The controls that pass an examiner aren't optional, and the evidence to prove continuous control operation isn't either. FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool maturity mapping is table stakes, and the new SEC cybersecurity disclosure rule added 4-business-day 8-K filing timelines for material incidents.

Our financial services engagements produce audit-ready documentation continuously, not scrambled together in the six weeks before each exam. The SOC work includes fraud-aware detection content for BEC, wire transfer anomalies, credential stuffing, and insider risk patterns specific to financial institutions. Managed SIEM on Sentinel, Splunk, Elastic, or QRadar provides the correlation layer, and Managed Detection and Response handles the 24/7 operations. PAM with just-in-time access and session recording covers admin, trading, and core-banking privileged operations.

For community banks and credit unions specifically, our team has been through enough examiner cycles to know what triggers follow-up questions and what closes quickly. The FFIEC IT Handbook booklets for Information Security, Outsourcing, and Business Continuity are the reference set. We map client controls against each booklet's expectations with evidence indexed for direct examiner access. Our regional bank SOC 2 case study documents one recent engagement, and the financial services industry page covers the full control catalog.

Retail is a PCI-DSS business whether you're a 5-store local chain or a 300-store national operator, and PCI-DSS 4.0 raised the bar on what scope reduction requires. Every system in your cardholder data environment costs money to secure, audit, and operate. The engagements we run in this vertical consistently remove 40-70% of systems from PCI scope through tokenization, P2PE using validated PCI SSC-listed solutions, and network segmentation that survives QSA testing.

Beyond PCI, retail IT runs into seasonal capacity stress nothing else in the business sees. Black Friday traffic at 5-20x baseline is normal, and attacks hide inside that noise. DDoS mitigation across network, application, and DNS layers plus capacity-pre-scaling for peak weeks are the pieces that keep e-commerce running when competitors go down. Multi-location SD-WAN (Fortinet, Cisco Meraki, Aruba EdgeConnect depending on fit) is part of our networking services, handling the 100-500 store networking problem without a dedicated in-house networking team.

POS security is its own discipline. RAM scrapers, keyloggers, and supply-chain implants have been the dominant retail breach vectors for over a decade. Our detection content covers the specific TTPs of FIN6, FIN7, and Magecart groups that actively target retail POS environments. Read the national retailer uptime case study for a 140-location engagement, or see the full retail industry page.

Manufacturers live at the intersection of IT and OT. Plant-floor PLCs, HMIs, SCADA systems, and CNC machines run operating systems that vendors stopped supporting years ago, and patching isn't an option because production lines can't go down every Tuesday. Security has to live at the network and monitoring layer, where passive industrial protocol monitoring and Purdue-model segmentation do the work patching can't. ISA/IEC 62443 is the reference standard we operate against in these environments.

For the defense supply chain specifically, CMMC 2.0 is now enforced in active DoD contracts, and primes are flowing those requirements down to subcontractors with compressed deadlines. We deliver Level 2 readiness through C3PAO assessment, covering all 110 NIST SP 800-171 controls with documented evidence, plus the ongoing control operation that recertification requires three years later. For the small number of contractors pursuing Level 3, we also operate the NIST SP 800-172 enhanced controls that DIBCAC assessment requires.

Ransomware response is a specialized problem in manufacturing because the operational decisions and the security decisions have to align. Our MDR service coordinates with plant ops on safe restart sequencing, never overriding safety decisions with security decisions. Immutable backups for ERP, MES, and engineering workstations restore to clean infrastructure with tested runbooks. Production downtime during our engagements averages zero hours. The defense subcontractor CMMC Level 2 case study walks through a 90-day engagement, and the manufacturing industry page covers the full OT/IT operating model.