Managed IT & Security for Healthcare & Life Sciences
Clinic-quiet IT, PHI protection, and predictable cost—for providers, labs, biotech, and research teams
What keeps healthcare & life sciences leaders up at night
- HIPAA/HITECH compliance gaps and audit readiness
- EHR downtime impacting patient care and revenue
- Ransomware, BEC, and medical device exposure
- Research data integrity, access control, and chain-of-custody
- Vendor sprawl across EHR, imaging, labs, and specialty apps
Outcomes TorchLight delivers
- Compliance-ready policies, risk assessments, and evidence
- Uptime targets aligned to clinic hours and maintenance windows
- Segmented networks and managed EDR to reduce attack surface
- Protected research workflows with access, logging, and backups
- Vendor coordination and single-point accountability
Why TorchLight for Healthcare & Life Sciences?
Because you need a partner that understands clinical and research workflows, coordinates vendors without drama, and reports to leadership and compliance with clarity. We deliver trust, security, and stability—so your team can deliver care and accelerate discovery.
Secure, Stable IT for Healthcare
Friendly service desk support, endpoint security, patching, backups, and cloud productivity are the basics. We implement them consistently so your business stays secure and operational, without slowing your team down.
Endpoint Detection and Response
Lightweight protection that monitors in real time, quarantines threats, and auto-remediates—without interrupting your day.
Vulnerability Management and Patching
Automated OS and app updates happen after hours to reduce disruption and close security gaps quickly.
Reliance Backups
Disaster-recovery-ready backups for workstations, servers, and cloud data—including M365 email and SharePoint.
Microsoft 365 Support
Simplified administration for email, identities, SharePoint, and Azure AD—managed in one pane of glass by our team.
24x7x365 Security Monitoring
We watch your business 24×7 and protect you in real time from threat actors.
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
ITDR protects your business by monitoring and responding to suspicious account activity to keep user identities and data secure.
Compliance & Resilience — What’s Included
Compliance readiness: policies, BAAs, risk assessments, and evidence aligned to HIPAA/HITECH, 21 CFR Part 11, and common frameworks.
Operational resilience: maintenance windows aligned to clinic hours; change management and test plans for EHR and imaging.
Vendor oversight: coordinated escalation with EHR, imaging, lab, and specialty vendors; due-diligence evidence for committees.
Cyber-insurance support: control implementation plans and attestations to stabilize renewals.
Leadership visibility: QBRs and scorecards translating IT risk to business impact and next actions.
Identity & access controls: MFA, SSO, conditional access, least privilege, and privileged account vaulting with approvals and logging.
Endpoint & server protection: managed AV/EDR, patching, and configuration baselines with 24/7 response.
Backups & recovery: Reliance Backups for endpoints, servers, and M365 with tested restores and reporting.
Secure collaboration: hardened M365 tenants, secure file sharing, and mobile device management.
Incident response: named handlers, rapid containment, forensic coordination, and post-incident reporting.
The Way Forward – TorchLight Blog
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Payment Remittance Phishing Attacks Security Bulletin
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What Palo Alto’s Breach Teaches About Protecting SaaS Applications
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Strategic Guidance – Getting The Most From Your Pen Test Report
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Docusign Phishing Attacks Security Bulletin
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The Palo Alto Paradox: Why Even Security Giants Fall Through Integration Gaps
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The Future of Authentication: Why Phishing-Resistant MFA Matters
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Why Advanced Cybersecurity Tools Still Fail – And What to Do Instead
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Why We Partnered with Drip7 Security Awareness Training to Tackle the Real Cybersecurity Risk: People
TorchLight has partnered with Drip7 to strengthen human-focused cybersecurity training. Learn how this microlearning platform helps reduce human error, improve security awareness, and support a holistic cybersecurity strategy for your business.
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20 Ways GenAI Will Reshape Cybersecurity and What It Means for Your Business
Generative AI is reshaping cybersecurity and changing the way businesses operate. In a recent Forbes Technology Council feature, TorchLight CEO Nolan Garrett shared how AI is improving threat detection and response while also introducing new risks, from deepfakes to automated reconnaissance. This post also looks at how AI is transforming industries beyond security, accelerating the…
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IT Should Be More Than Just Fixing Computers
Learn why SMBs need more than basic IT support—and how a security-first MSP like TorchLight can protect your business from modern cyber threats.