Clinical dependencies
Ask clinical engineering and the service owner which workstations, shared systems and support arrangements the service relies on.
Healthcare / Breakwater ASOC
Make care continuity
part of every cyber decision.
Connected devices, workstations and supplier access all contribute to the care environment. Breakwater ASOC uses agentic AI to investigate their security context and prepare response options for security, clinical engineering and service owners to review.
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Illustrative evaluation scenario
An imaging service needs supplier access. What would changing it affect?
A device-related finding prompts a review of the supplier connection supporting an imaging service. Security, clinical engineering and the department owner need to understand the dependencies before deciding how to respond.
- Supplier access
- Imaging workstation
- Care-supporting service
Operating priorities / Healthcare
Bring the service around the device into view.
Device support conditions
Include supplier responsibilities, approved assessment methods and maintenance conditions in the investigation.
Care continuity
Review the proposed change with the teams responsible for service availability and recovery.
Discover / Provenance / Response
Build a response clinical engineering can review.
Understand the device’s connections.
Discover helps review observed identities, relationships and candidate exposure around the selected service, with collection methods agreed by the healthcare team.
Trace the evidence behind the finding.
Provenance supplies source-linked software and cryptographic context where analysis inputs are available. Retain gaps that require supplier confirmation.
Prepare options around the care service.
The Response Council examines competing explanations and prepares a bounded proposal. Clinical and technical owners review the dependencies, exclusions and next steps.
Agentic AI / Healthcare
Investigate the exposure.
Understand the consequences for care.
ILLUSTRATIVE INVESTIGATION
Does the supplier connection expose systems beyond the imaging service?
The Council connects the technical finding to a service review that includes clinical engineering and supplier questions.
Separate the finding from assumptions.
Examine the evidence for the access relationship and the affected system’s identity. Surface missing context about the device, workstation and supporting services.
Make the service dependencies explicit.
Prepare options that state what would change, which support arrangements need confirmation and what evidence the reviewers still need.
Keep the care decision with its owners.
Clinical engineering and the service owner review operational impact and support conditions before authorizing the technical next step.
Decision & evaluation criteria
What can change while preserving the service’s support and recovery needs?
Evidence to retain
- Device identity and the service dependencies confirmed by clinical engineering
- Finding sources, supplier questions and unresolved evidence
- An agreed next step with service ownership and follow-up checks
How to judge the evaluation
Follow one imaging-service access question through investigation and clinical engineering review. Assess whether ASOC makes dependencies and uncertainty clear enough to choose the next step.
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Start with one care-supporting service.
Bring security, clinical engineering and the service owner together around an imaging or device-support question. No patient information is needed to discuss the scope.