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Healthcare and Life Sciences Solutions

Realize better clinical and business outcomes with superior scale, reliability, and security

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Innovate with the right partner

Healthcare conversations are about accessibility and speed of delivery. When it comes to technology, those conversations are the same. Your organization relies on continuous uptime and a consistent experience for both care teams and patients. Meanwhile, protecting patient data is growing more complex as threat actors evolve, all under stringent regulatory requirements. Akamai can partner with you to help you realize the best clinical and financial outcomes.

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Provide better care and enhance safety, with better data

Provide continuity and secure access, anywhere

Reduce risk and complexity while delivering a trusted and consistent experience — all while meeting compliance requirements like HIPAA.

Protect your network and guard against malware

Keep patient and PHI data safe, away from phishing, ransomware, and malicious actors.

Scale smartly, efficiently

Harness the power of the cloud to scale your healthcare organization, enhance interoperability, and control costs.

Segmentation Impact Study: Healthcare and Life Sciences

Learn how healthcare and life sciences organizations are adopting microsegmentation to defend against ransomware, achieve compliance, and improve cybersecurity.

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API Security Risks in Healthcare

See why 84% of healthcare firms faced API incidents. Get insights on AI-linked threats, misconfigurations, and strategies to strengthen patient trust and AI resilience.

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Akamai powers and protects the entire healthcare ecosystem

Whether it’s AI, virtual care, or cloud hosting, we understand the unique drivers behind each healthcare and life sciences specialty area. Read more about how our solutions not only address today’s challenges, but fully support tomorrow’s progress.

Providers

You want to keep patients and their data safe, meet regulatory requirements, and evolve your digital transformation strategy.

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Payers

Saving costs. Saving lives. Healthcare is a complicated business that requires insurers like you to stay on the cutting edge.

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Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences

The diseases you treat and prevent are just as complex and diverse as your business models and technology needs.

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Healthcare IT

From EHRs to wearables — and beyond — your technology drives innovation across each part of the healthcare ecosystem.

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Featured Solutions

Secure your infrastructure

Harden your infrastructure first to prevent downtime from cyberattacks and data breaches.

DDoS Protection

Advanced DDoS mitigation protects our data centers, helping to fend off attacks on your infrastructure.

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Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Detect breaches and harden against ransomware by applying granular, software-defined segmentation.

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DNS Manager

A comprehensive interface within our Cloud Manager that gives you complete oversight of DNS records.

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Application Load Balancer Cloudlet

Maximize app performance and availability with fast, reliable load balancing.

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Secure your organization

Keep your employees, users, and data safe across remote workforces and third parties.

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Detect breaches and harden against ransomware by applying granular, software-defined segmentation.

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Akamai MFA

Mitigate employee account takeover with phish-proof multi-factor authentication based on FIDO2.

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Secure Internet Access Enterprise

Proactively detect and block malware, ransomware, phishing, and data exfiltration attacks.

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Enterprise Application Access

Mitigate network level access and deliver granular application access based on identity and context.

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Secure apps and APIs

Secure digital interactions with your patients and members while guaranteeing 100% availability.

API Security

Discover, monitor, and audit API activity using real-time analytics to respond to threats and abuse.

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App & API Protector

Leading security protection for applications and APIs at the edge.

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Bot Manager

Advanced bot management designed to detect and mitigate sophisticated bad bots but allow good bots.

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Enhance cloud compute and performance

Enable cloud migration and workflows through the cloud and edge computing platforms.

Akamai Cloud

Compute, storage, networking, database, and container management cloud services.

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EdgeWorkers

Execute JavaScript functions at the edge to optimize site performance and customize web experiences.

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Ion    

Deliver an improved and reliable user experience for your website, dynamically and at scale.

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Image & Video Manager

Enhance digital experiences with intelligent image and video optimization for every user on any device.

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Global Traffic Management

Optimize app performance and avoid outages with intelligent load balancing.

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mPulse

Measure the business impact of real user experiences in real time.

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Customer stories

Healthcare Leader

By partnering with Akamai, this top healthcare provider in India protected patient data at scale from threats to vulnerable APIs.

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Novant Health

Novant Health

Finding and mitigating API risks with visibility, data protection, and “shift-left” testing.

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U.S. Healthcare Company

U.S. Healthcare Company

Network engineers used Layer 7 visibility and smart policies via microsegmentation to reduce cyber risks.

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Star Health Insurance

Star Health

Health insurance company enhanced security posture while scaling digital services and keeping sensitive health data protected.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Healthcare organizations must maintain continuous uptime and delivery speed while protecting patient data against evolving cyberthreats and stringent regulatory requirements like HIPAA.

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation provides microsegmentation to help protect sensitive PHI, build operational resilience, and contain lateral ransomware attacks across critical network workloads.

Organizations can protect remote users and external access by deploying Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Akamai MFA, Secure Internet Access Enterprise, and Enterprise Application Access.

Infrastructure resilience can be achieved using DDoS protection, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, DNS Manager, and Application Load Balancer Cloudlet.

Digital patient interactions and applications are secured through API Security, App & API Protector, Bot Manager, and Account Protector.

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Have Questions?

You have challenges. We have solutions. Reach out to Akamai’s experts for a personalized review of your security, cloud, or performance posture today.