How Healthcare Organizations Turn Data Intelligence into Action with Cyera

Safeguarding healthcare data is foundational for delivering quality care, preserving trust, and maintaining compliance. But for fast-growing healthcare organizations, legacy tools and processes are falling short. Every acquisition introduces more data. Cloud migration makes it more challenging to track where sensitive data resides, and new applications can lead to greater exposure. For lean security teams, identifying data is a critical first step. But beyond discovery, teams need to understand which exposures matter most and what to do next.

Here’s how Cyera’s data security solution helped WELL Health, ChenMed, and VetCor find their data, prioritize risk, and tackle the most important issues–faster and with greater precision. 

WELL Health prioritizes data risk across 26 billion records

As one of Canada’s largest digital healthcare providers, WELL Health is on a fast-track growth path driven by an aggressive mergers and acquisitions (M&A) strategy. Every new acquisition brought more data and unfamiliar environments that the security team struggled to understand and protect.

Challenge: With every acquisition, WELL Health inherited enormous volumes of data and all its associated risks. Manual processes used to discover PHI missed sensitive information in documents, proved unscalable, and couldn’t keep pace with growth. 
Action: When the existing approach reached “a breaking point,” in the words of Business Information Security Officer Ritesh Gawand, he and his team deployed Cyera and launched a remediation program to address Jira/Freshservice tickets for top five biweekly risks.

Outcomes: Cyera supports cybersecurity readiness by: 

• Uncovering high-risk exposures in 26 billion records across 13 business units
• Providing a view into an acquired company’s data risk posture on day one
• Gaining immediate insights into the blast radius of attacks to stop breaches in their tracks
• Curbing expenditures by eliminating the need for point products for each business unit

"When I looked at other tools in the market, most of them were shiny objects rather than a core engine, not powerful. With Cyera, the findings were so powerful from day one that we were able to make decisions," said Gawande. (Read the case study.)

ChenMed mitigates 32,000 security risks with a deep view into PHI assets

With 111 medical centers across the US, ChenMed delivers VIP medical services to underserved senior citizens, making data security a number one priority. 

Challenge: CISO Janet Heins was laser-focused on safeguarding sensitive patient medical records but lacked a scalable way to reduce exposure. A single individual relying on cumbersome manual processes was tasked with identifying and mapping a massive volume of PHI. Blind spots put vital data at risk and jeopardized HIPAA compliance.
Action: As Heins explains, Cyera was the “clear choice” because it expanded visibility across the entire data estate in less time and with fewer resources. Using actionable data intelligence derived from Cyera’s automated discovery and AI-driven classification, her team can focus on high-priority risks and remediate issues faster.  

Outcomes: In a short time, ChenMed experienced dramatic results:

• Eliminated time-consuming and error-prone manual processes, empowering the lean security team to safeguard healthcare data more efficiently and rapidly
• Uncovered and remediated more than 32,000 data security issues
• Streamlined compliance and ensured consistent governance across 30 policies

“Since we implemented Cyera … we’ve really been able to mature our security posture. We know where the sensitive data is that we need to protect better, and we’re able to remediate the critical issues that Cyera is finding,” said Heins. (Watch the video.)

‍VetCor gains visibility into data exposure in just one week

VetCor owns and operates more than 950 veterinary hospitals in the U.S. and Canada. Financial data, pet health records, personally identifiable information (PII) of pet owners, and internal documents were spread across its vast environment. Working toward building greater security maturity, CSO Andrew Wilder prioritized data governance modernization.

Challenge: Limited to manual processes and legacy tools, Wilder’s small team had little visibility into where data was stored and its exposure. Data left over from migrating Google Suite to Microsoft Suite compounded the problem, while externally shared files holding sensitive data created even more risk. 

Action: Wilder adopted the Cyera Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) to identify, locate, and clean up data. In just one week, the platform proved its value by providing comprehensive visibility into data, along with risk prioritization and automated response. 

Outcomes: By leveraging AI-driven classification to discover sensitive information at scale, VetCor enables Wilder’s team to:

• Identify and mitigate risky file-sharing, while guiding users on how to proactively identify and prevent future exposure
• Help executives assess precisely which sensitive data could be affected in a simulated attack during a tabletop exercise
• Augment limited security resources with AI-powered automation—only a single team member needed to oversee data security on a part-time basis 

“What stood out to me when I compared Cyera to other solutions was the speed with which we could identify all the sensitive data in our environment,” noted Andrew Wilder. (Watch the video.)

Cyera provides teams with data intelligence to focus and remediate what matters most

Across these growing organizations, understanding sensitive data helps security teams prioritize exposure, strengthen governance, and support business growth. Contact us today to book a demo.