Shield brings prevention-first network security to critical infrastructure environments. Shield blocks malicious traffic at the network layer using the Global Threat Engine and 8.5 billion IP and DNS combinations refined since 2001.
| What it does | Blocks malicious network traffic at the network layer using reputation-based threat intelligence. |
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| Who it's for | Security teams needing prevention-first network defense. |
| How it deploys | Shield's five products cover cloud, Shield OnPremise, endpoint, monitoring, and management. |
| What you get | Prevention of known-bad connections with full evidence of what was blocked. |
Hospitals, clinics, and regional health systems run on networks that cannot tolerate downtime, with security teams that are stretched thin and a regulatory environment that does not forgive missing controls. Shield deploys without disrupting care delivery and produces the network monitoring evidence the HIPAA Security Rule expects.
Healthcare organizations face two simultaneous pressures: an active ransomware threat that targets patient care directly, and a regulatory environment that demands evidence of network monitoring at all times.
Patient systems cannot stay offline. Operators know that. Shield blocks the outbound command-and-control traffic that ransomware needs to receive instructions, before encryption begins.
Imaging equipment, infusion pumps, smart room controls, vendor-managed devices. Most cannot run an endpoint agent. Shield protects them at the network.
164.312 (Technical Safeguards) requires audit controls and access monitoring. Shield event logs and the Shield OnPremise Syslog feed produce evidence of network-layer access control.
Healthcare IT and security teams operate inside a constraint most enterprise teams do not face: a security tool that takes the network down can directly harm patients. Shield is built around that constraint.
Shield supports the network monitoring, access control, and audit logging requirements your auditor will ask about. The mapping below is the short version. The full crosswalk lives on the Compliance page.
Shield supports the technical safeguards required for audit controls (164.312(b)), access control (164.312(a)), and integrity monitoring through network-level logging of all blocked events.
Shield supports HITRUST controls related to network protection, monitoring of network communications, and boundary protection across covered environments.
Shield aligns with the HHS 405(d) Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices for endpoint protection, network management, and data protection in the medium and large healthcare practice categories.
“Shield gave us the network-layer protection we needed for healthcare clients without putting agents on every connected device. The deployment was fast and the operations team did not have to learn a new tool.”
HIPAA audit teams ask for evidence of network monitoring and access control. Shield produces a clean event log without adding administrative burden to clinical IT teams.
Imaging modalities, infusion pumps, and biomedical equipment that cannot run agents are protected at the network layer the moment Shield turns on.
A short proof of value runs Shield in observe-only mode on a clinical or business segment. We document what we find together, with full transparency to your clinical leadership and compliance team.
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