Sasa Software

What Challenges are you solving in this industry

• Cyber security of operational networks [CS]
  
  

Description of solution

Sasa Software’s world-first GateScanner DICOM protector is used by leading healthcare organizations in Israel today, protecting networks and PACS systems from infiltration via incoming imaging data files. GateScanner allows for the safe import of medical imaging data from any end-point, while maintaining full data integrity and usability.

Sasa Software’s GateScanner technology uses proprietary Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) technology to transparently sanitize all incoming DICOM files arriving on CD’s, USB sticks, emails, computing devices, file shares, public portal uploads and more – removing any embedded malware, thus defeating infiltration attempts utilized by advanced attacks such as ransomware. Utilizing proprietary Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) technology, GateScanner provides up to 99.99% protection from known and unknown (‘signature-less’) file-embedded threats .

What is the value you bring to your customers?

Healthcare networks are, by their nature, highly distributed with an extremely wide attack surface, making them particularly vulnerable to cyberattack. The onset of the COVID pandemic has increased this vulnerability exponentially, with an accelerating demand for remote medicine through mobile applications and online patient portals.

The result is a surge of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations, reaching unprecedented levels in 2021, with an estimated total cost of 20.8 billion dollars to the US healthcare industry in one year.

GateScanner’s content sanitization engine is capable of blocking the initial infiltration phase of a cyberattack, when applied to network, web and email gateways of the organization. It prevents the stealth insertion of file-based malware typically used by ransomware, APT’s and zero-day attacks.

Prevention of ransomware attacks has become top priority for healthcare administration as the costs associated with these attacks are no longer limited to the financial realm. The breach of patient health information presents a huge legal liability, but more concerning is the potential risk to human life posed by the sustained debilitation of core IT assets for weeks on end following a ransomware attack. Initial reports have emerged of actual deaths caused by the incapacity of hospitals to respond appropriately to acute situations during sustained and comprehensive network downtime due to cyberattack.

Healthcare organizations can no longer avoid the implications of the mounting threat and must assume a more proactive stance in regards to the protection of their core operational assets. Following implementation of GateScanner CDR protection systems, clients have seen a 99% decrease in intrusion attempts arriving through their content channels.