Incident response should never be reactive. Incident Response readiness must be proactive and measurable, driven by a real commitment to continuous improvement. As management guru Peter Drucker famously said, “If you can measure it, you can improve it.”
Yet at many healthcare organizations, Incident Response is static and disorganized: plans that have never been adequately tested, retainers gathering dust, IR compliance boxes dutifully checked. Consider these grim survey results:
- 37% of healthcare organizations don’t have even a rudimentary incident response program.
- 16% of organizations with IR plans don’t know if their plans have been tested.
- Only 45% of organizations with IR plans have completed tabletop exercises (TTX) to gauge plan efficacy.
Fortified Health Security’s new webinar, “Healthcare IR Made Measurable and Mobile,” takes you step by step through the benefits of our dynamic Incident Response Program (IRP) in the Central Command platform. A mature IR program can significantly reduce time-to-containment and help avoid multimillion-dollar losses. Our IRP puts you on the road to continuous improvement with monthly maturity scoring, NIST-aligned roadmaps, and mobile access to everything you need when systems go down.
Measurable and Mobile Incident Response Readiness
Fortified’s Incident Response Program offers these key benefits:
Heightened readiness – Our IR module provides monthly program reviews and updates. We offer a NIST-aligned proprietary roadmap across 15 readiness criteria. You also get ongoing TTXs to validate roles, gaps, and communications. Your IR plan stays current through continuous engagement.
Always available – You have mobile access to the IR plan and procedures via Central Command. Your plan and call tree are not hosted in your environment, so they don’t go down if you do. Vital information is ready to use when every second counts.
When Downtime Hits, Your Plan Should Not
Leveraging our healthcare expertise – Fortified views everything in the context of patient safety. We thoroughly understand EHR dependencies, medical device constraints, and clinical workflows.
Return on spend – With our IR program, you get all-in readiness all year for less than the cost of one hour of downtime. Prepared and tested organizations can see a 50-75% reduction in downtime costs, with recovery that’s two to four times faster. It’s a program that can reduce your cybersecurity premiums by as much as 23%.
Other benefits include:
• Measurable readiness that replaces guesswork with scores, trends, and gap analysis
• First-hour checklists with a clinical continuity check so care decisions stay safe
• Clear roles and escalation in one roster with auto-handoff for real coverage
• EscalationIQ integration that routes detections to your people with time stamps
• Board-ready reporting that shows progress you can prove to executives and insurers
• During an incident, Fortified’s experts stand with you, not the insurer – ensuring that your patients and operational flow are the main priorities
• Quick access to playbooks, runbooks and other critical elements
Built for Healthcare’s Clinical Demands
Across-The-Board Readiness Measurement
Our IR module in Central Command gives you an overall readiness score, IR program progress metrics, and performance scores in six critical function areas:
- Govern
- Identify
- Protect
- Detect
- Respond
- Recover
If one of these benchmarks lags behind the others, you know immediately where to focus your efforts.
The Financial Case for IR Maturity
Fortified’s Incident Response program in Central Command turns your passive documentation into measurable Incident Response readiness and resilience. Not only does our IR program help you reduce cyber insurance premiums, but the enhanced resilience delivers about $7.5 million in savings on average.
Watch our webinar today to learn more about the operational and financial benefits of a robust incident response program.
