ShelterZoom’s New Capabilities Will Ensure Cyber Resilience & Business Continuity
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE/ February 25, 2025 / The healthcare industry is profoundly vulnerable to cyberattacks: Healthcare in recent years has “suffered the highest average [data] breach costs,” according to a 2024 IBM/Ponemon Institute report, with breaches typically lasting longer before discovery than the average across other industries, compounded by “the rise of very large breaches involving millions of records.”
Helping to meet healthcare’s critical need for more robust, reliable cybersecurity, ShelterZoom, a pioneering cybersecurity company recognized as a market leader by Gartner, will enlist healthcare organizations to participate in the Early Adopter Program, to harness a next-generation cybersecurity platform, Spare Tire, to make the EHR (Electronic Health Records) downtime a thing of the past. Unlike other market solutions, Spare Tire is a clinician-driven resilience and disaster recovery tool designed for healthcare organizations to achieve zero downtime and continuity in the face of cyberattacks or planned system upgrades.
By utilizing this EHR, clinical and operational resilience platform, hospitals and other healthcare organizations can establish care continuity that leads to reduced costs, fewer burdens on healthcare staff, increased productivity and even saved lives.
“Spare Tire will offer the healthcare industry a sea change in cybersecurity – which it so urgently needs,” said ShelterZoom CEO and co-founder Chao Cheng-Shorland.
“Healthcare is not only uniquely vulnerable to cyberattacks but also must confront life-and-death issues 24/7.”
Spare Tire’s key benefits:
- Almost zero downtime, with data syncing back to the main EHR system, ensuring uninterrupted patient care. Doctors, nurses, and staff can continue their workflow, minimizing change management and ensuring a seamless transition.
- Records continue to be maintained online and are automatically synced back to the main platform, enhancing efficiencies, timeliness, and accuracy, which, in turn, enhances revenue streams.
- Strong resilience decreases the likelihood of cyberattacks in the future, and backup data is clean, eliminating the threat of contamination.
- Spare Tire can save millions per attack and significantly reduces the likelihood of paying a ransom.
- Likely to save lives due to patient health records still being accessible to ensure care continuity.
- Timely revenue recovery and avoiding revenue loss.
“Simply because the deployment of ShelterZoom’s Spare Tire may save lives during cyberattacks, by ensuring uninterrupted patient care and full accessibility to patient records, would seem to make the solution an imperative for any proactive healthcare entity,” said Meg Lehman, Healthcare Program Manager at TD Synnex, Public Sector.
“Now, more than ever before, we must proactively adopt cyber resiliency to protect the vital functions of healthcare at every level of society,” said Chao Cheng-Shorland. “The legacy systems healthcare organizations rely on are susceptible to vulnerabilities and advanced threat actors. We must implement a new approach driven by healthcare professionals who are serving patients on the frontlines instead of merely looking at it from a technical disaster recovery perspective.”
For more information on ShelterZoom’s new Spare Tire Early Adopter Program, please visit here.
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About ShelterZoom
ShelterZoom is a pioneering cybersecurity, digital content ownership/control and business continuity SaaS company recognized as a market leader by Gartner in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Unlike other solutions on the market, ShelterZoom’s patented Single Source Of Truth® technology introduced an entirely new way to address cybersecurity at its root cause, by building an organic protection layer inside content (through tokenization). This allows content and documents to defend themselves from the inside out against cyber threats. ShelterZoom’s next-generation suite of solutions has been fully integrated with Microsoft Outlook and Gmail to stop email attachment vulnerabilities causing data leaks, data breaches and wire fraud as well as provide business continuity for healthcare during ransomware attacks and other cyber attacks, ensuring EMR downtime is not an issue. The multiple award-winning cyber resilience SaaS company was founded in 2017 and serves enterprises of all sizes and industries, including healthcare, financial, government agencies, law firms, non-profits, academia, and real estate.
