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TraceSolution Brief
Healthcare / IoMT
Passive Clinical Device Intelligence for Healthcare Networks
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.
The Challenge
Thousands of Devices, No Centralized Inventory
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.
No Visibility into Clinical Device Behavior
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.
HIPAA Demands Proof That Does Not Exist
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.
Active Scanning Endangers Patient Safety
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.
How WireTrace Solves It
19+ Proprietary Medical Protocols
WireTrace decodes 19+ 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.
411-Rule Classification Engine
Every medical device is classified by manufacturer, model family, clinical function, and communication pattern. 411 classification rules with an intelligent multi-signal classification engine combine protocol fingerprints, manufacturer identification, automatic device discovery from network announcements, device identity fields, and multi-source passive fingerprinting with thousands of signatures into confident classifications across 68 device types.
Clinical Communication & File Activity Monitoring
Continuous visibility into which devices communicate with EMR systems, PACS servers, clinical gateways, and external endpoints. File activity monitoring tracks operations (read, write, delete, upload, download) across SMB, FTP, NFS, HTTP, and DICOM - providing forensic-grade audit trails for ePHI file access. Unexpected cross-VLAN traffic, rogue devices, and communication pattern changes detected automatically.
Segmentation Validation from Traffic
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.
Medical Protocol Intelligence
DICOM
HL7
HL7/Epic
Philips Respironics
Philips Avalon FM
Philips Data Export
Draeger Infinity Delta
GE CARESCAPE GEMNet
GE Datex-Ohmeda
Hamilton Medical
Maquet Servo
Masimo SET
Abbott i-STAT
bioMerieux VITEK
Capsule DCMP
Welch Allyn WACP
Sirona SIDEXIS
HillRom NaviCare
and more+
Representative examples. WireTrace supports 272 protocol parsers including 19+ proprietary clinical and biomedical protocols, with continuous expansion.
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TraceSolution Brief - Healthcare / IoMT
Use Cases
Biomed Asset Inventory
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.
Segmentation Validation
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.
HIPAA Compliance Evidence
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.
Ransomware & Clinical Threat Detection
12 ransomware kill chain detection rules identify reconnaissance, lateral movement, credential exposure, active encryption (mass file operations, ransomware extensions), and data exfiltration. Monitor communication baselines per device and per protocol. Detect anomalies with full clinical network context. MITRE ATT&CK mapped.
Compliance & Regulatory
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.
HIPAA Security Rule
Asset inventory (164.310), access controls (164.312), audit controls, transmission security, and device/media controls evidence generated continuously from observed traffic. File activity audit trail documents ePHI access across DICOM, SMB, and clinical protocols.
ISO 27001 for Healthcare
Information security management applied to clinical environments. Asset management, access control, communications security, and operational evidence.
Joint Commission
Environment of care and life safety evidence. Medical device inventory accuracy and network communication documentation for accreditation surveys.
Deployment
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. Optional active enrichment (SNMP polling with per-device credentials, Active Directory correlation) adds hardware model, serial number, and firmware details. Server deploys in under 10 minutes. Built-in AI agent with 21 query tools answers natural language questions about the clinical environment in under 200ms - "Which devices accessed PACS this week?" Streaming reports generate progressively with conversation memory for follow-ups. Adaptive storage retention keeps data as long as disk allows. Runs entirely on-premise with no GPU or cloud dependency. First medical devices classified in under 30 seconds.
Know Every Medical Device on Your Network
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.