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Which connected clinical systems are exposed?

Bedside monitors, infusion pumps, imaging systems, and the clinical network that connects them keep patient care running, often on devices that cannot be patched or rebooted while in use. A finding that is routine on an office laptop can affect patient safety when it reaches a bedside monitor. Breakwater Secure, Assure, and SOAR give clinical engineering, hospital IT, and patient safety teams one evidence trail from exposure to a change care teams can absorb.

See how the modules apply here ↓
01 OBSERVE · Bedside + clinical devices02 VALIDATE · Clinical + patient systems software03 GOVERN + VERIFY · Patient-safety-approved changes

How the modules fit

One evidence-to-action system, applied to patient care.

Secure, Assure, and SOAR keep their separate jobs. What changes here is the asset list, the software under test, and who signs off on a change.

Capability availability depends on product maturity, installation, integrations, permissions, and the operating boundaries agreed for each deployment. See the executive reference architecture → for how evidence, boundaries, and authority connect.

01OBSERVE

Breakwater Secure

Build the operating picture across bedside and clinical devices.

Secure connects bedside monitors, infusion pumps, imaging systems, and the biomedical device inventory to asset identity, protocol behavior, and reachability. A monitor that should sit on the isolated clinical network but can reach the hospital's administrative network shows up as a candidate path, not an assumption in a biomed spreadsheet.

  • Bedside device inventory
  • Clinical network segmentation
  • Imaging system reachability
  • Vendor remote access
THE DECISIONWhat exists, what changed, and what is plausibly exposed?Visit Secure ↗
02VALIDATE

Breakwater Assure

Separate a defensible finding from scanner noise before it reaches a clinician.

Patient-facing portals, clinical integration engines, and EHR-adjacent software generate findings that compete for the same attention as patient care. Assure traces each finding to its exact source and replay evidence, so a security team can defend a priority call to a clinical engineering lead who is also managing device rounds.

  • Source traceability
  • Independent replay
  • Coverage limits
  • Human review
THE DECISIONIs this finding defensible, and what evidence supports it?Visit Assure ↗
03GOVERN + VERIFY

Breakwater SOAR

Keep a clinical network change inside patient-safety approval.

A segmentation or access change on a clinical network carries real patient-safety stakes. SOAR opens the case with evidence attached, routes it to a named clinical engineering or biomed approver, constrains execution to a window that does not interrupt care, and re-tests the path after the change to confirm what actually closed.

  • Case evidence
  • Approval gates
  • Bounded execution
  • Outcome verification
THE DECISIONWhat can change safely, who can approve it, and did it work?Visit SOAR ↗
WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE

A bedside monitor on the wrong network, closed without interrupting care.

A bedside monitor installed during a unit renovation turns up in a routine discovery scan, still reachable from the hospital's administrative network. Secure traces its firmware to a known weakness. A permitted reachability check confirms it can reach the clinical network from outside its intended segment.

SOAR opens a case, a named clinical engineering lead approves a segmentation fix scheduled around patient rounds, and Breakwater re-tests the path after the change. The record, what was found, what was proposed, who approved it, what was confirmed, stays attached to the monitor's file.

Who owns the decision

Built for the teams who share one unit.

Breakwater keeps each team's evidence attributable to its own systems without erasing where responsibility actually sits.

Plan an evaluation

Bring us the system you cannot fully account for.

We will define a bounded evaluation with explicit evidence sources, success criteria, and the hospital's own approval model.

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