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Enterprise-level cybersecurity for rural critical access hospitals

Big hospital cybersecurity. Without the big security team.

Critical access hospital cybersecurity often falls to a small IT team already responsible for keeping the hospital running. Connected devices, aging systems, third-party access, and new vulnerabilities create more opportunities for a cyber incident to disrupt patient care.

Solution Synergy brings together healthcare cybersecurity services that help you reduce cyber risk, secure connected medical devices and vendor access, and govern AI safely.

You get the technology and specialist expertise to strengthen security without the cost and workload of building a larger IT team.
Schedule a Critical Access Hospital Cybersecurity Assessment
  • Know where you’re exposed
    See the risks, assets, and connections that need your attention.
  • Focus on what matters most
    Prioritize the issues most likely to disrupt patient care.
  • Build cyber resilience with fewer resources
    Strengthen security without adding headcount or unnecessary admin.
  • Get expertise when you need it
    Add healthcare cybersecurity expertise without having to hire it in-house.
The reality of rural hospital cybersecurity

Rural hospitals face enterprise-level cyber risks with fewer resources .

Rural critical access hospitals may be small, but the technology environment you have to protect isn’t.
  • Aging systems still supporting patient care can’t always be patched or replaced when budgets are already stretched.
  • Medical devices and other connected assets need to be secured.
  • Clinical systems need to stay available.
  • New vulnerabilities need attention.
  • Vendors need remote access.

And that responsibility often falls to an IT team of just a few people.

Small teams and tight budgets make it difficult to stay on top of every vulnerability, device, and connection.

This creates security gaps attackers can exploit and puts the systems that patient care depends on at risk.

You need to close those gaps without giving an already stretched IT team even more security work to manage.

40%+

of rural hospitals are operating at a financial loss.
Source: Chartis

<65%

of rural hospitals have implemented some of the most basic cybersecurity best practices.
Source: AHA

51%

increase in healthcare ransomware incidents from 2024 to 2025.

Source: FBI (2025 & 2024 IC3 Reports)

4–7×

greater distance time for patient to travel to the nearest unaffected hospital after a rural hospital ransomware attack.
Source: The Journal of Rural Health

Rural healthcare is a critical lifeline.

When critical systems go down, patients may not have another hospital nearby to turn to. Stronger cybersecurity protects more than your network. It helps keep care available to the community that depends on you.

Connected cybersecurity for rural hospitals

Protect patient data from the risks that matter most.

Solution Synergy brings together the technology and expertise to address threats, connected assets, third-party access, and healthcare AI governance.

Solution Synergy

Cybersecurity built around your hospital

See every connected asset and where the risk is

Armis Centrix automatically discovers and monitors connected systems and medical devices, showing you which pose the greatest risk.

Armis Centrix

See where your security program needs to improve

Accorian assesses your security and compliance posture, identifies gaps, and builds a practical roadmap around your hospital.

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Accorian

Solution Synergy

Cybersecurity built around your hospital

Keep AI use safe and governed

AURA AI + Accorian help you see how AI is being used, assess the risks, and put the right policies, oversight, and HIPAA-aligned controls in place.

AURA AI + Accorian

Find the cyber risks that matter most

EAGLEi continuously monitors your environment, prioritizes the biggest risks, and helps you remediate them.

EAGLEi

Give vendors access without exposing your network

Xona gives third parties least-privilege access to the systems they need, with every session controlled and monitored.

Xona

Where cyber risk builds in healthcare

Everything your team needs to stay ahead of cyber risk.

From identifying cyber risks and stopping attacks to helping your team remediate issues and demonstrate risk reduction progress, EAGLEi brings everything together into one managed service.

Get complete visibility across your environment

See the devices, systems, vulnerabilities, and connections across your hospital, including assets that can easily go unseen, without relying on manual checks.

Prioritize the risks that could do the most damage

Not every alert needs the same response. See which risks could cause the most disruption, so your team can deal with the most important ones first.

Add security without adding administrative staff.

Use agentless, low-maintenance technology that doesn’t need constant attention, with managed support to handle more of the day-to-day security work.

Get specialist expertise when you need it

Bring in specialist healthcare cybersecurity expertise when you need it, without having to find, hire, and manage those skills in-house.

Strengthen security without an enterprise-level budget

Make limited security budgets go further by putting the right protection around the systems your hospital depends on most.

Rural critical access hospital cybersecurity use cases

Real situations rural hospital IT teams deal with — and how Solution Synergy helps

In a critical access hospital, small IT teams or an individual IT director are usually responsible for everything from keeping clinical systems online to responding to the latest cyber threat.

Here’s where Solution Synergy can help.

01

Your IT director is juggling cybersecurity alerts, IT maintenance, and access issues all at once

There isn’t a security team big enough and ready to jump in when something goes wrong. You need to know whether it affects your hospital, how serious it is, and what to do about it right now!

  • Solution Synergy provides the monitoring, prioritization, and the cyber specialists necessary to assess and resolve the incidents quickly.

02

You have medical devices that have been there longer than your IT team

Tight rural hospital budgets can mean imaging, monitoring, and other clinical devices stay in service for years, even when they can’t be easily patched or run security agents. You still need to know they’re there, whether they’re vulnerable, and which ones need attention.
  • Solution Synergy gives you continuous, agentless visibility to find and monitor those devices without interfering with patient care.

03

A critical system goes down, but the specialist who can fix it is hours away

Rural hospitals often rely on outside vendors for specialist technology support that isn’t available on-site. You need to get them into the right system quickly without giving them wider access to your network.
  • Solution Synergy gives vendors secure, controlled remote access to exactly what they need, with every session monitored.

04

An overstretched clinician starts using AI to document patient notes.

They’re trying to save time, not create a security problem. But with a small IT and compliance team, a new AI tool can make its way into everyday clinical work before anyone has checked where patient data is going or what safeguards are in place.
  • Solution Synergy helps you see how AI is being used, assess the risks, and put the right policies and controls around it.
How Solution Synergy works with you

Cybersecurity and AI Roadmap that match Critical Access Hospital Realities

You don’t need to know which solution you need before you talk to us. That’s what we’re here for.

We start by understanding your hospital, where you’re exposed, and what’s already in place. Then we build a practical plan around your risks, resources, and priorities.

1

Assess

Get a clear picture of your current exposure, connected assets, controls, and compliance gaps.

2

Prioritize

Identify the biggest risks and what needs to change first.

3

Strengthen

Align the right technology, controls, and specialist support.

Take the next step

Start with the risks that matter most to your hospital

Solution Synergy builds a cybersecurity program that fits your needs, team, and budget. We start by assessing where you stand today, then put the right technology, controls, and support in place.
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FAQs

FAQs about critical access hospital cybersecurity

What are the top cybersecurity threats facing critical access hospitals?
Ransomware is a major threat, but it isn’t the only one. Unpatched vulnerabilities, mismanaged firewalls, aging systems, unsecured medical devices, phishing, and third-party VPN access can give attackers easy access to the critical systems and data your hospital relies on.
Critical access hospitals must protect electronic protected health information (ePHI) through appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards. In practice, that means understanding your risks, controlling access, protecting data, monitoring your environment, and being prepared to respond when something goes wrong.
Effective hospital ransomware protection starts before an attack reaches the endpoint. EAGLEi continuously finds and prioritizes vulnerabilities attackers could exploit, with Solution Synergy helping you address the gaps that put your hospital at risk.
Start by knowing exactly what is connected to your network, including devices that can’t run traditional security agents. Tools like Armis Centrix automatically find and monitor connected medical devices, show you where the risks are, and flag what needs attention — without installing agents or disrupting clinical use.
Provides managed cybersecurity and AI Governance security for rural hospitals, combining low-maintenance technology, continuous monitoring, risk prioritization, automatic remediation, incident resolution and bi-annual penetration testing, all without adding more staff or complexity to your rural hospital.

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Our Solutions

Accorian: AI Security, Cyber Testing, Compliance & Consulting Services
AppViewX: Certificate Lifecycle Management & PKI-as-a-Service
Armis: Real-Time Asset Visibility, Vulnerability and Risk Management
AuthX: Multifactor Authentication, Single Sign-On (SSO)
Black Talon Security: EAGLEi CTEM & AURA AI Governance/Compliance
XONA Systems: Secure Remote Access for OT, SCADA and ICS

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