Healthcare cyberattacks are rising fast. Here’s how to stop them before they start.

Cyberattacks in healthcare aren’t just rising—they’re exploding. While 97% of healthcare professionals feel confident in their organization’s ability to defend against cyber threats, the reality paints a different picture. In the first half of 2024 alone, nearly one in four cyber incidents targeted the healthcare sector. So where’s the disconnect?

Let’s examine healthcare cybersecurity more closely and consider how solutions like Thoropass, built on AWS, are helping organizations stay secure, compliant, and ready for the future.

High stakes of healthcare security

The healthcare industry now generates 36% of the world’s data, much of which is unstructured—think clinical notes, scanned documents, and diagnostic images. With data fragmentation and poor quality as barriers to effective decision-making, the risks extend beyond IT to patient care and trust.

• Cyberattacks cost an average of $1.47 million
• Healthcare data breaches have increased YoY for the past 10 years
• A single breach (e.g., Change Healthcare) affected 100 million people
• Stolen healthcare data is 10x more valuable than credit card info

The takeaway? Healthcare data is high-value and high-risk—which makes protecting it more than just a cybersecurity issue.

True protection starts with proving you’ve done the right things: securing systems, documenting controls, and passing audits that matter. In this landscape, compliance isn’t just a checkbox—it’s a shield.

Every regulation you follow, every audit you pass, and every control you implement is a layer of defense. But when frameworks pile up and processes stay manual, compliance becomes a bottleneck instead of a safeguard. That’s where automation becomes more than efficient—it becomes essential.

Automation: Your new compliance ally

Manual compliance is no longer sustainable. The healthcare organization faces dozens of overlapping requirements, including SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI DSS, GDPR, ISO 27001, and more. Managing them all takes time, expertise, and constant oversight.

Thoropass helps organizations flip the script by automating compliance tasks and integrating them directly into their AWS-based operations:

• Reduce evidence requests by 60%
• Automate 90% of compliance work
• Complete audits 60% faster
• Save up to two-thirds on traditional compliance costs

Whether tackling an initial audit or maintaining continuous compliance, automation makes the process smoother, faster, and more secure.

Built for the realities of healthcare

Thoropass uniquely supports healthcare providers and vendors with a solution that’s:

• End-to-end: From evidence gathering to readiness to the audit itself–all from one partner
• Cloud-native: Seamlessly integrates with AWS services
• Expert-driven: 500+ audits annually by in-house auditors
• Future-ready: Supports the rise of AI, ML, and Python in healthcare data operations

In fact, 78% of healthcare organizations now use AI/ML to automate data analysis, and the use of Python (a popular data processing language) has surged by over 570%. The need to secure, tag, and govern data at scale has never been more urgent or achievable.

Making compliance a competitive edge

Healthcare organizations face non-stop pressure, from data sprawl and  shifting regulations requirements to mounting cyber threats. It’s easy to feel like compliance is just one more obstacle. But with the right tools and partners, it becomes your strategic advantage. 

Thoropass, built on AWS, brings automation and audit together in a single, streamlined solution,  helping healthcare teams move faster, reduce risk, and stay ahead of regulatory demands. Compliance doesn’t have to slow you down. With Thoropass, it moves you forward. Discover how Thoropass and AWS can unlock your next advantage—get started today.