What You Should Know:
– Clearwater, a pure-play provider of cybersecurity and compliance solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced a collaboration with Google Cloud.
– The partnership integrates Google Threat Intelligence (including Mandiant, VirusTotal, and Google’s internal intelligence) with Clearwater’s 24×7 Managed Security Services and Security Operations Center (SOC). The solution is designed to deliver real-time, actionable insights to proactively defend against advanced cyber threats, further protecting Clearwater’s growing list of healthcare clients, as well as defense industrial base clients served by its Redspin division.
Proactive Defense with Enhanced Threat Intelligence
In an era where ransomware, supply chain attacks, and nation-state threats are on the rise, organizations can no longer afford to operate without high-fidelity, real-time threat intelligence. Today’s threat actors move quickly, often exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities and novel attack paths that bypass traditional defenses. Effective cybersecurity demands not only visibility into threats but also the ability to tap into intelligence around these threats to understand and derive the best course of action in real time.
By embedding the latest and most robust commercially available threat intelligence into its Managed Security Services and SOC, Clearwater aims to provide clients with the insight and agility needed to outpace attackers and fulfill their compliance and patient safety obligations. This includes predictive intelligence that enables Clearwater to take precautions to help block threats specifically targeting healthcare and defense industrial base organizations.
Key Capabilities for Robust Cyber Resilience
Clearwater’s Enhanced Threat Intelligence Service offers several key capabilities:
- Real-time enrichment from Google Threat Intelligence.
- Tight integration with Clearwater’s MSSP/SOC for automated correlation and reduced Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Respond (MTTR).
- Healthcare-specific intelligence contextualized to Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) attack vectors.
- Advanced threat hunting leveraging Google Cloud’s threat graph and YARA-based Indicator of Compromise (IOC) matching.
- Regulatory alignment with HIPAA, NIST CSF, and CMMC Level 2+.
- Tailored for the specific needs of the healthcare and the defense industrial base sectors.
“With the growing frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks on healthcare and critical sectors, organizations need a threat intelligence capability that is not only powerful but deeply integrated into their operations,” said Brian McManamon, General Manager of Clearwater Managed Security Services and President of Clearwater’s Redspin division. “Our Enhanced Threat Intelligence Service combines Google’s unmatched threat telemetry with Clearwater’s proven MSSP team to enable faster detection, informed response, and improved cyber resilience.”
