Industry · Healthcare

Protect Patient Data and Meet HIPAA Obligations Without SIEM Overhead

Snare gives healthcare providers, payers, and health-tech organisations forensic-grade visibility across clinical, administrative, and cloud systems — meeting HIPAA and HITECH audit requirements without paying SIEM vendors to ingest every byte of patient activity data.

90-98%

Storage savings at rest

6+yrs

HIPAA-aligned retention supported

4000+

Customers worldwide

25+yrs

In production, regulated industries

The Challenge

Protecting PHI shouldn’t mean paying for every log byte

Healthcare organisations run electronic health record systems, medical devices, billing platforms, and cloud applications side by side — each one a potential access point to protected health information (PHI). Ingestion-priced SIEMs force security teams to choose between full visibility and a sustainable budget, right in the environment where breach notification rules leave the least room for gaps.

HIPAA| HITECH Act | HITRUST | PCI DSS | GDPR | State Breach Notification Laws

  • EHR systems, medical devices, and administrative platforms each generate access logs in different formats, across on-prem and cloud environments

  • Per-GB SIEM ingestion pushes teams to trim low-priority sources — creating exactly the blind spots regulators penalise after a breach

  • HIPAA’s audit-control requirement means every PHI access needs to be logged, attributable, and retrievable — not just “logged somewhere”

  • Multi-year retention expectations are expensive to satisfy when years of data sit “hot” in a SIEM

  • Security and compliance teams spend valuable time reconciling fragmented logs ahead of HIPAA audits and breach investigations

The Snare Solution

One pipeline: collection, archive, routing, and plain-English audit prep

Snare decouples collection and retention from analysis, so healthcare organisations capture forensic-grade PHI access data everywhere it’s needed and decide later — cost-effectively — what gets sent to the SIEM.

Snare Agent

Collects tamper-resistant logs from EHR platforms, clinical applications, endpoints, and cloud workloads — encrypted and chain-of-custody protected at the source.

Snare Reflector

Filters and routes logs in real time to your SIEM, data lake, or archive in parallel — no duplicated ingestion, no vendor lock-in.

Snare Central

Archives compressed, searchable history to meet multi-year HIPAA retention expectations. Log Replay pushes only the relevant window back into a SIEM for an investigation.

AskSnare

Compliance and privacy teams query PHI access history in plain English — “who accessed this patient record in the last 30 days” — with explainable, auditable answers.

Compliance Coverage

Purpose-built logging for HIPAA & HITECH audit controls

Snare’s report library covers the access-control events HIPAA’s audit provisions and breach investigators expect to see, out of the box.

PHI access tracking

Every login, logoff, and access attempt to systems holding protected health information — successful and unsuccessful — attributed to an individual user.

Account & lockout events

User and terminal lockouts, account management changes, and login identification captured for HIPAA’s required audit trail.

System file integrity

Attempts to alter operating system or application files logged and retained — key evidence in breach and tampering investigations.

Cross-platform coverage

A single agent normalises logs across Windows, Linux, macOS, medical devices, and cloud workloads, so clinical and IT systems are audited consistently.

Long-term retention

Compressed archive in Snare Central supports multi-year HIPAA-aligned retention windows without keeping years of PHI access data “hot” in a SIEM.

Explainable AI for breach response

AskSnare surfaces plain-English answers with auditable reasoning during a breach investigation — critical when notification deadlines are measured in days.

Why Compliance Teams Choose Snare

  • Real-time alerting on PHI access anomalies, alongside full retained audit history
  • Compressed archive reduces the cost of multi-year HIPAA-aligned retention by up to 98%
  • Log Replay serves auditor and breach-investigation data requests without permanent hot storage cost
  • Federated AskSnare queries respect PHI data residency — nothing is replicated outside your environment

“Snare’s log chain-of-custody gave us full confidence during a regulatory audit. No data gaps. No surprises.”

— Compliance Officer, Government Agency

“With Snare Agents, we reduced our SIEM ingestion costs by 40% overnight while improving data fidelity.”

— CISO, Global Financial Institution

See How Snare Protects Patient Data Without SIEM Overhead

Run the ROI calculator against your current SIEM ingestion spend, or request a technical briefing scoped to your HIPAA compliance environment.

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