SOLUTION BRIEF

SmartFiles: Secure Data
Vault for Healthcare
Key Benefits• Unlimited scale for healthcare
application data

• Seamless integration withPACS, VNA, EMR, EHR

The explosion of digital healthcare and medical imaging data is powering
improved diagnoses, speeding the testing of new drugs, and uncovering
new treatments. To achieve these outcomes, a typical hospital can have over
100 applications in their digital healthcare ecosystem—ranging from patient
records in EMR and EHR systems—to medical images like MRI, CT, X-Ray, and• Cyberthreat protection,

mammograms from PACS and VNA systems. Healthcare data is being managed• Reliable HIPAA compliancesilo of storage. Furthermore, the high-fidelity nature of today’s medical imaging

detection, and recovery• Reduced costs with superior
storage efficiency• Powerful search and analytics
tools• Flexible hybrid cloud datamobility• Software-defined, unified fileand object services

today from many sources across multiple systems, often each with their ownsystems is driving needs for larger storage capacities and perpetually causing
costs to skyrocket.
Medical professionals need to correlate and analyze data across all of thesedifferent systems to better treat patients. But trying to manage and secure thesheer volume of data spread across all of these sources while maintaining HIPAA
compliance has become time-consuming and difficult with traditional storage
products. Another major headache for healthcare organizations is that patient
data has become a massive target for cyberthreats like ransomware.
Healthcare was one of the most frequently attacked industries in 2022, and Healthcare ransomware
attacks have more than doubled over the past 5 years. These attacks caused pandemonium andrisks to patient safety—with emergency patients having to redirect to other hospitals, medical
records becoming inaccessible, surgeries canceled, tests postponed, admissions halted, 911 services
interrupted, dispatch centers having to rely on printed paper for emergency services, and more.
From a regulatory standpoint, sensitive patient medical data must be securely retained for at least
6 -14 years—and in many cases throughout the patient’s life. Losing data or allowing unauthorizedaccess can result in patient harm, lawsuits, and fines. Protecting data from these risks has become
very challenging and expensive due to the inflexibility and high costs of aging legacy storage silos.
Most legacy platforms also lack native search and audit capabilities. This poses huge challenges forcomplying with retention requirements and data privacy regulations like HIPAA, and for analyzing
historical datasets.
The imposed limitations of legacy storage products make it difficult for healthcare organizations tokeep up with capacity needs, putting data security and compliance at risk, and creating considerable
management complexity. Healthcare organizations realize that there is tremendous opportunity inmodern cloud-based solutions, as today’s newest healthcare applications and tools can directly readand write from a cloud S3 target. But, many legacy storage products lack these capabilities.

SOLUTION BRIEF | SmartFiles: Secure Data Vault for Healthcare

Secure Data Vaultfor Healthcare
PACS

VNA

Clinical Docs

SmartFiles

Video Surveillance

Cloud- Archive- Replicate- Tier
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Figure 1: SmartFiles as a Secure Data Vault for Healthcare and Enterprise Backup TargetWhy Cohesity SmartFiles for Healthcare?
Cohesity is a leader in data security and management withcomprehensive cyber threat protection and detection, rapid
ransomware recovery, and hybrid cloud mobility.
Cohesity SmartFiles offers a scalable and compliant Secure Data

Recover instantly at scale from data outages and attacks, withconfidence that the recovery data is clean and free of cybervulnerabilities. Reduce downtime and help ensure continuous
healthcare operations by recovering data quickly to any historicalpoint-in-time.

Vault for Healthcare for medical images and healthcare data withIntelligent Data Management for Medical Data

fast retrieval of data on-demand. With the flexibility to tier andSmartFiles delivers the capacity, performance, and scale to help

archive with unlimited cloud scalability for secure data isolation andultra-long-term retention, healthcare organizations can significantly
reduce costs while maintaining fast local access to their data.
SmartFiles protects data against the latest cyberthreats to keep
ransomware at bay, with robust compliance features to satisfy
regulations like HIPAA and GDPR.

Secure Patient Data
Protect sensitive patient and medical data from cybercriminals.
Cohesity offers a multilayered approach to defending digital
healthcare data. Unlimited immutable snapshots and DataLock

healthcare organizations eliminate data silos with a data security
and management platform and unified management console that is
ideal for: secure and cost-effective long-term retention of healthcare
data, optimizing cost and performance for backups, and streamlining
disaster recovery with hybrid cloud data mobility across multiple sites
and clouds.
Consolidate data from healthcare applications and medical images
from PACS and VNA systems, and medical records from EMR andEHR systems—as well as unstructured data from enterprise backups,
video surveillance, archives, big data, and more.

features (WORM) keep data safe by preventing it from being modified

Improve patient outcomes with native search features so healthcare

or deleted. Based on Zero Trust data security principles, Cohesity’sproviders can easily correlate and search across medical records andarchitecture helps mitigate risks from malicious attacks with at-rest

clinical documents to accelerate and improve patient care, as well asand in-flight data encryption, role-based access controls, multi-factor

quickly respond to compliance and security investigations.

authentication, and quorum approvals to prevent unauthorizedadministrative changes.

Reduce healthcare IT costs as much as 51% or even more, byDetect anomalies like ransomware with ML-based threat intelligenceachieving up to 96x or greater storage efficiency. SmartFiles delivers

and scanning to detect risks, malware, and other indicators ofglobal deduplication, compression, and small file optimization forcompromise (IOCS) across the digital healthcare data landscape.

superior space efficiency and data reduction. Cohesity SmartFiles

Additionally, with comprehensive logging of all file operations,significantly reduces your data footprint, lowers operational costs,

healthcare organizations can respond easily to compliance andand minimizes the attack surface to protect your critical healthcare

security investigations related to suspicious user behaviors.

data from cyber threats.

consolidating data from workloads common to healthcare, while

SOLUTION BRIEF | SmartFiles: Secure Data Vault for Healthcare
Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by optimizing cost andKeep patient data accessible at the most critical times. In theperformance throughout the digital healthcare data lifecycle.

healthcare industry, loss of data access and system downtime can

Uncover powerful data insights by analyzing hot, warm, and cold data

be catastrophic to patient health and safety. SmartFiles is designed

utilization from third party NAS systems - for policy-based tiering ofwith a highly-available and fault-tolerant architecture to deliver thedata to SmartFiles with automated lifecycle management of data tohighest-levels of system and data integrity required in the healthcarethe most appropriate or economical tiers or clouds.

industry. Eliminate forklift operations with non-disruptive upgrades

Integrate seamlessly with existing healthcare and backupapplications. Future-proof your data and simplify management withunified file and object support for the protocols that your applications

to radically simplify future expansions without costly downtime andburdensome data migrations.

and users rely on most - including SMB, NFS, and S3.

Do More With Healthcare Data

Satisfy Compliance with HIPAA and other data privacy regulations

healthcare data with Cohesity FortKnox, a highly-secure SaaS-based

like GDPR with secure, long-term, and cost-effective data retention
in your location or clouds of choice. Data lifecycle management
automation features empower healthcare organizations to avoid
compliance violations and costly fines. By economically retaining data
throughout the life of patients, or else for specified time periods,
SmartFiles ensures that sensitive patient data always remains
protected from loss and unauthorized access.
Avoid vendor lock-in for healthcare IT with software-defined
hybrid cloud flexibility and the option to deploy on a choice ofhardware at the edge, on-premises, or in the cloud. Freedom ofchoice is paramount to enabling healthcare IT organizations tostay ahead of tomorrow’s demands. SmartFiles software-defined
hybrid cloud architecture, combined with its intelligent data lifecycle
management features, make it effortless to scale and mobilize
healthcare data across any on-premises and cloud locations ofchoice. Powered by a cloud scale architecture with the ability tohandle billions of files, SmartFiles compute and storage nodes canbe scaled independently with support for heterogenous disk andall-flash platforms.

Add an extra layer of protection against ransomware for critical
data isolation and recovery solution that improves cyber-resiliency
with immutable copies of data in a Cohesity-managed cloud vault.
Gain the deepest level of intelligent threat protection with Cohesity
DataHawk. Further investigate security and compliance events withcustom alerting, visualizations, and reporting of user activities - withaudit trails for rogue behaviors like mass deletions, failed accessattempts, and other possible data exfiltration indicators.
Put your healthcare application data to work and derive new
insights with integrated Marketplace apps. These apps run directly on
data in-place to: mitigate risk from cyber threats, accelerate content
searches, streamline compliance and eDiscovery, detect anomalies,
develop actionable insights with analytics, and more – all without
requiring extensive infrastructure.

The Smart Choice
Healthcare organizations choose Cohesity SmartFiles because
it is the smartest way to optimize cost, scale and efficiency foryour unstructured data. It is a simple, singular solution that lets
you manage, secure, and do more with your data with next-levelsoftware-defined file and object services for the hybrid cloud.

Learn how a healthcare organization avoided paying ransom and lowered their medical imaging
costs with Cohesity.

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