Solving healthcare’s unique security challenges: The role of zero trust and SASE

With clinicians and staff accessing patient data from dozens of locations and devices, healthcare’s attack surface has never been larger. The cost of getting security wrong — $9.77 million per breach on average, according to CrowdStrike’s “Healthcare Cybersecurity in 2025: Staying Ahead of Emerging Threats” report — is the highest of any industry. And the tools most providers rely on, built around a simple block-or-allow logic, weren’t designed for healthcare’s complex, distributed environments.