WireTrace identifies every medical device on your clinical network — by manufacturer, model, and function — by parsing proprietary healthcare protocols directly from observed traffic. Biomed and security teams gain a continuously updated inventory and behavioral visibility across ventilators, monitors, pumps, analyzers, and imaging systems without installing agents, running active scans, or risking disruption to patient care.
Connected medical devices appear and move across clinical networks without notice. Biomed teams maintain manual spreadsheets that go stale within weeks. New infusion pumps arrive, monitors are relocated between floors, and aging devices remain connected long after decommission — none of it tracked.
Clinical engineering cannot see which devices communicate with EMR systems, which access external endpoints, or which protocols they use. Without behavioral context, risk assessment and incident investigation are guesswork.
The HIPAA Security Rule requires an accurate inventory of all systems that store, process, or transmit ePHI. Most hospitals cannot prove which medical devices handle patient data, how that data flows, or whether segmentation policies are actually enforced.
Medical devices are sensitive to unexpected network traffic. Active scanners have caused ventilator faults, infusion pump restarts, and patient monitor disconnections in production clinical environments. Patient safety makes active discovery unacceptable.
WireTrace decodes proprietary medical device protocols at the wire level — Philips Respironics ventilator telemetry, Draeger anesthesia communications, GE CARESCAPE monitor streams, Hamilton ventilator data, Masimo SpO2 waveforms, Abbott i-STAT sessions, DICOM imaging, and HL7 clinical messaging. Each device is identified by what it actually communicates, not by MAC address alone.
Every medical device is classified by manufacturer, model family, clinical function, and communication pattern. Multi-signal weighted voting combines protocol fingerprints, MAC OUI, DHCP hostnames, and observed behavior into a confident, continuously updated classification — without manual data entry.
Continuous visibility into which devices communicate with EMR systems, PACS servers, clinical gateways, and external endpoints. Unexpected cross-VLAN traffic, rogue devices, and communication pattern changes that may indicate compromise or misconfiguration are detected automatically.
WireTrace proves whether medical devices are properly isolated from general IT, guest, and administrative networks — continuously, from observed traffic. Segmentation violations are identified when they happen, not during the next firewall rule review.
Representative examples. WireTrace supports additional proprietary clinical and biomedical protocols, with continuous expansion.
Discover and classify every connected medical device automatically. Ventilators, patient monitors, infusion pumps, imaging systems, lab analyzers, and nurse call systems appear in a live, continuously updated inventory — without manual spreadsheet maintenance or walk-through audits.
Prove that medical device VLANs are properly isolated from general IT, guest, and administrative networks. Detect when a clinical device communicates outside its designated segment or when unauthorized endpoints appear on biomedical networks.
Generate continuous audit-ready evidence from live traffic. Document which devices handle ePHI, how clinical data flows between systems, and whether access controls and transmission security are enforced — replacing periodic manual assessments.
Monitor communication baselines per device and per protocol. Detect anomalies — unusual data volumes, new communication peers, protocol deviations, and potential lateral movement — with full clinical network context for investigation.
WireTrace generates continuous compliance evidence from observed clinical network traffic. Device inventories, ePHI flow documentation, access control validation, and segmentation evidence are always current — replacing manual assessments that go stale between audits and accreditation cycles.
Asset inventory (164.310), access controls (164.312), audit controls, transmission security, and device/media controls evidence generated continuously from observed traffic.
Information security management applied to clinical environments. Asset management, access control, communications security, and operational evidence.
Environment of care and life safety evidence. Medical device inventory accuracy and network communication documentation for accreditation surveys.
A single WireTrace sensor on a SPAN port or TAP captures all clinical network traffic in a zone. The sensor is 100% passive — it never transmits on the monitored network. Multiple sensors cover multiple VLANs and departments, reporting to a centralized server. Fully air-gap deployable for isolated clinical networks. First medical devices classified in under 30 seconds.
Request a proof-of-value deployment. No agents on devices. No active probes. No risk to patient care. Connect a sensor to a clinical VLAN and watch ventilators, monitors, and pumps appear — identified by manufacturer and function, automatically.