VitalAxis is a creator of tools and software suites for medical practices and laboratories. Its leading product, VitalDx, is a unified workflow management solution for laboratories that reaches across a network of ordering physicians, couriers, locations, pathologists, send-out/referral organizations, and subspecialty practices. VitalAxis software helps ensure the integrity and privacy of lab testing, controlling the distribution of results and streamlining the billing process for providers.
Meeting the Challenge: To most IT and DevOps teams, security adds a heavy burden to managing the private, public, and hybrid cloud environments where their workloads are hosted, and annual compliance audits require resources better allocated for building solutions.
Quick Glance
Industry- Healthcare, Biotechnology
- With the control of sensitive patient data, VitalAxis must adhere to HIPAA compliance mandates for security frameworks and infrastructure, as its cloud-based software solution connects laboratories of different sizes, managing communications and custody control of specimens from the time they are extracted to the distribution of results to patients.
- After working with several different cloud providers, including AWS and Rackspace, VitalAxis chose Armor as a security and compliance partner whose cloud-native security and audit-ready controls met its needs. Armor protects VitalAxis on multiple levels, from the application level, the SQL injection, and WAF levels, to the network and protocol layer which was key for VitalAxis to feel confident in a robust cybersecurity program..
OVERVIEW
The complexities of cybersecurity and compliance are daunting for any organization, especially those under pressure to manage their cloud-hosting infrastructure with speed and agility. To most IT and DevOps teams, security adds a heavy burden to managing the private, public, and hybrid cloud environments where their workloads are hosted, and annual compliance audits require resources better allocated for building solutions.
To address these challenges, healthcare SaaS provider VitalAxis chose Armor Anywhere with secure hosting for its laboratory management and medical billing software. After working with several different cloud providers, including AWS and Rackspace, VitalAxis chose Armor as a security and compliance partner whose cloud-native security and audit-ready controls met its needs.
HIPAA/HITRUST COMPLIANCE
With security controls mapped to compliance mandates such as HIPAA/HITRUST and PCI, Armor Anywhere with secure hosting provides security and compliance benefits to reduce regulatory scope, simplifying the auditing process and lowering management costs.
“Today our VitalDx product and billing product are hosted by Armor, and we are processing close to 10,000 cases a day. We’re talking about at least a few thousand users accessing it from various geographies in the U.S.,” says Tharak Krishnamurthy, Chief Technical Officer for VitalAxis.
FINDING THE RIGHT SOLUTION
Armor Anywhere is purpose-built for the cloud to deploy cost-effective security and compliance protection for your cloud workloads. Armor Anywhere integrates robust security capabilities with 24/7/365 monitoring to deliver unified threat detection and response for your applications and data wherever they reside.
The Armor cloud security platform is the industry’s leading threat detection and response platform. It integrates threat intelligence, advanced analytics, and incident response capabilities into a single platform that bolsters your defenses, uncovers threats, and prevents security breaches.
Armor Anywhere provides cloud workload protection that safeguards your cloud workloads wherever they may reside, delivering advanced security-as-a-service protection to fortify your security defenses and unify visibility of your workloads across private, public, or hybrid cloud environments.
Armor Anywhere deploys in minutes and provides:
Threat Detection and Response
Audit-Ready Compliance
Unified Protection and Visibility
“How a data center is managed and operated is critical to compliance,” says Krishnamurthy. “Armor provided the cloud infrastructure and secure access to the data, establishing a VPN for our primary offices. They understood HITRUST/ HIPAA requirements, understood security in the cloud. From the time we picked them up, we never looked back.
“We now have an automated process to ensure we’re meeting compliance,” Krishnamurthy adds, “which allows us to showcase our security, to say that we have our applications on a robust, efficient environment.”
Armor provides security solutions that give companies a clear picture of threats facing their organizations. It provides the technology to stop attacks before they happen and cybersecurity experts to help react quickly and effectively when they do, keeping your data safe and compliant.
Regardless of whether your organization is a large hospital, a clinic, a biosciences entity, or a health tech provider, you can secure your sensitive applications and data in the cloud while automating and accelerating compliance with HIPAA/HITRUST.
