When PKI Breaks, Trust—and Care—Stops

Patient Safety, Data Integrity, and Continuity Are at Risk

In healthcare, trust is everything

It underpins every diagnosis, prescription, and data exchange. But in the digital age, trust is rooted in encryption, and PKI powers encryption.

In California, expired digital certificates caused a disruption in the state’s COVID-19 reporting system—resulting in over 300,000 test results being delayed or lost.

Healthcare IT leaders can’t afford to treat PKI as an afterthought.

A single certificate failure can halt clinical systems, disrupt emergency services, sever communication with diagnostic equipment, and compromise protected health information (PHI).

Hidden Risks in Healthcare PKI

Modern healthcare environments are complex:

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, medical devices, IoT endpoints, APIs, cloud platforms, and third-party providers rely on PKI for secure identity, data integrity, and trust.

Without real-time visibility into certificate status, cryptographic hygiene, and HSM availability and configurations, providers face:

Halt access to patient records
Break emergency communications
Disrupt clinical workflows and medical devices
Violate HIPAA, HITECH, or HITRUST compliance
Expose protected health information (PHI) to attackers

Healthcare IT teams are often under-resourced. But attackers—and auditors—aren’t waiting.

Why Traditional PKI Management Doesn’t Work in Healthcare
- Static tools and spreadsheets can’t keep pace with expiring certificates across EHRs, devices, and cloud workloads.
- CLM platforms miss critical insight into revocation, crypto policy violations, and configuration drift
- Compliance frameworks like HIPAA and HITRUST increasingly expect proactive PKI monitoring, not just lifecycle management.

Introducing PKI Spotlight^®

Purpose-Built Visibility and Control for Healthcare PKI

In healthcare, every second counts. Whether accessing a patient’s chart, transmitting a diagnostic reading, or dispatching emergency medical services, your systems depend on a secure, functioning PKI.

PKI Spotlight delivers real-time monitoring, assessment, and alerting across your PKI and HSM infrastructure, including on-premises, hybrid, and air-gapped environments. It uses lightweight agents to gather critical telemetry, providing visibility where other tools can’t reach.

With PKI Spotlight, healthcare organizations can:

Ensure continuity of care across clinical systems, emergency dispatch platforms, and patient data services
Monitor certificate health and cryptographic posture for medical devices, identity systems, and insurance record platforms.
Detect and remediate vulnerabilities before they disrupt authentication, violate HIPAA, or expose PHI.
Maintain trust and compliance in every environment, including facilities with strict operational or network isolation

Healthcare delivery depends on digital trust. PKI Spotlight ensures you see and secure the systems that make it possible

Operational Resilience for Healthcare Environments

We lost valuable time with a vendor who wasn’t built for the scale and security demands of healthcare. If I could go back, I’d have called PKI Solutions sooner.

CIO

From Visibility to Resilience

You Don’t Have to Do It Alone

PKI Spotlight is backed by decades of consulting experience supporting healthcare organizations of every size, from regional systems to national hospital networks. We’ve helped clients design compliant PKI architectures, recover from failures, and prepare for audits.

Trust the process. Our consulting team has been in the trenches, and we’ll bring that experience to your deployment.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership

Healthcare IT teams often lack bandwidth and staffing for deep PKI oversight. PKI Spotlight reduces time spent on manual monitoring and troubleshooting, eliminates the cost of downtime and audit remediation, and extends the life of your existing infrastructure.

Fewer outages. Fewer audit findings. Fewer calls to emergency support.

Is Your PKI Ready?

Are expired or revoked certificates about to bring down critical systems?<br>
Are medical devices and endpoints silently failing authentication checks?<br>
Are auditors going to uncover crypto risks before you do?