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Network security policy manag­ement for healthcare

Control firewall policy across hospitals, clinics, data centres, and cloud environments. Maintain segmentation around clinical systems and medical devices. Reduce exposure while keeping critical access available.

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[ Our customers ]

Leading healthcare organisations choose FireMon

  • Australian Red Cross
  • BCBS
  • Bristol Myers Squibb
  • CardinalHealth
  • CSMC
  • Delta Dental
  • Encompass Health
  • Intermountain Health
  • McKesson
  • Scripps
  • Wellstar

15,000+

Devices supported in production

25M+

Rules under management

900+

Firewalls centralised

[ The gap ]

More sites and devices shouldn't mean less policy control

Your network spans hospitals, clinics, remote sites, data centres, cloud environments, third parties, and infrastructure inherited through acquisitions. Firewall policies grow as clinical applications expand, medical devices connect, and new organisations join the network.

Manual reviews, spreadsheets, and vendor-specific tools make it difficult to see what access exists across the full environment. You need to understand which rules allow traffic, where unintended paths exist, and how a proposed change could affect segmentation or critical services.

Build a single, trusted view of firewall policy so your teams can reduce exposure, support audit requests, and make changes without losing control of the access that healthcare operations depend on.

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Manage firewall policy across healthcare networks

Normalise firewall rules, objects, and network access across vendors and environments. Build one system of record spanning on-prem firewalls, cloud security controls, hospital networks, clinics, and remote sites.

Find unused, redundant, shadowed, and overly permissive rules and apply consistent policy checks.

Proven across complex healthcare environments

FireMon delivers 60% reduction in manual rule review time for a large nonprofit healthcare system.

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60%

Reduction in manual rule review time

1,000+

Devices managed across Palo Alto and Cisco

100%

NIST, PCI, HIPAA, and HITRUST compliance

[ Real world results ]

“After our previous platform failed, FireMon gave us immediate visibility and a reliable way to clean up and govern firewall policy at scale, without adding more manual work.”

Head of Network Security Architecture, Fortune 500 Financial Services

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[ FAQ ]

Frequen­tly asked questions

Network security policy management for healthcare gives network and security teams a consistent way to analyse and govern firewall rules across hospitals, clinics, data centres, cloud environments and remote sites. It helps teams understand access, find risky or unnecessary rules, maintain segmentation, assess changes before implementation, and support compliance and audit workflows.

FireMon helps teams assess firewall policy against applicable HIPAA Security Rule requirements and internal standards. Teams can identify policy gaps, document rule ownership and business justification, track reviews and changes, and produce evidence for audit processes. FireMon supports compliance work, but no single product makes a healthcare organisation HIPAA compliant.

FireMon helps teams understand the access paths that connect medical-device segments with clinical systems, administrative networks and other zones. Teams can identify the rules that allow traffic, examine services and protocols, find unintended connectivity, and maintain segmentation as devices, applications and network infrastructure change.

Yes. FireMon provides policy control across north-south and east-west access. Teams can analyse paths between clinical, administrative, research, guest, cloud and medical-device environments, then identify broad or unintended access that undermines segmentation. This helps maintain microsegmentation as applications, workloads, devices and firewall policies change.

FireMon brings policy from acquired hospitals, clinics and physician practices into a common system of record. Teams can evaluate inherited access, duplicate or unnecessary rules, inconsistent controls and segmentation gaps before networks are connected or standardised. This reduces the manual effort required to understand infrastructure that the acquiring team did not build.

Yes. FireMon gives teams a consistent view of policy across on-premises firewalls and cloud security controls. Teams can analyse rules, objects, access paths and policy relationships across hybrid infrastructure, apply consistent checks, and reduce the blind spots created by separate vendor consoles and management processes.

FireMon helps teams assess proposed changes against existing access, segmentation requirements, risk and compliance controls before enforcement. Teams can identify overly permissive access, conflicts and unintended paths, then document the business need and approval. This supports safer changes while preserving the connectivity that approved clinical workflows require.

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Bring healthcare firewall policy under control

See how FireMon can help your team support audit readiness, understand access, manage change and reduce unnecessary rules across hospitals, clinics, data centres and cloud.

  • Proven results across global enterprises

  • 120+ firewall and cloud platforms supported

  • Continuous compliance and risk reduction

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