Generative AI is transforming the way healthcare organizations operate, from chatbots and virtual agents to advanced data analytics. The potential is enormous: faster insights, more efficient operations, and new ways to connect with patients and providers. But with every innovation comes new risks and nowhere are the stakes higher than in healthcare, where data breaches can put lives at risk.
Recently, Cloudticity CEO Gerry Miller and AWS Principal Partner Solutions Architect Riggs Goodman discussed how healthcare organizations can embrace the power of generative AI while keeping their environments secure. Here are the key takeaways:
The Value of Generative AI
Generative AI enables innovation and unlocks new business values in three categories:
- Creativity: create new content and ideas including conversations, stories, images, videos, and music
- Productivity: radically improve productivity across all lines of business, use cases, and industries
- Connectivity: improve how employees, partners, and patients interact with your organization
Why Securing Generative AI Matters
Unlike traditional workloads, generative AI introduces new challenges. Models are trained on massive datasets and respond to natural language prompts, which means:
- Sensitive data can be exposed
- Responses may be inaccurate, biased, or harmful
- Compliance rules evolve quickly
According to an IBM study, 94% of executives say it’s important to secure AI solutions before deployment. In 2024, there were over 1,600 different AI policy initiatives across 69 countries being tracked globally. Now in 2025, there are additional compliance factors and policies that need to be taken into account. Cloudticity played an integral role in developing the HITRUST AI Security Assessment with Certification, the industry's first certifiable, comprehensive, prescriptive, and practical control specification.
Defense-in-Depth Security
There is no silver bullet solution with cyber security so a layered defense helps organizations build the right solutions needed in order to provide the right functionality for customers, while also being able to do it in a secure way. Think of it as a castle surrounded by multiple walls and moats:
- Data protection: the castle in the center
- Application protection: guardrails for what information goes in and comes out
- Infrastructure protection: protecting the underlying IT infrastructure
- Threat detection and incident response: access controls, monitoring, and remediation
- Identity and access management: ensuring only the right users and agents get the right data
- Network and edge protection: DDoS protection, WAF, application firewalls
- Policies, procedures, and awareness: defining what AI systems should and should not do
This layered approach ensures no single point of failure compromises the entire environment.
How Cloudticity Protects Healthcare AI Workloads
Cloudticity helps healthcare organizations securely adopt GenAI on AWS. We automate compliance, scale AI ops, and protect sensitive data. Our Oxygen™ platform adds built-in security, observability, and continuous HIPAA/HITRUST enforcement along with:
- Compliance-ready AI environments: launch GenAI with HITRUST-aligned infrastructure and automated controls for access, encryption, logging, and PHI protection; mapped to almost 150 global compliance frameworks including NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and OWASP
- Threat-aware cloud operations for AI: detect and respond to GenAI threats in real time with tools like GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Cloudticity automation; preventing model abuse, data leaks, and pipeline attacks
Benefits of Cloudticity + AWS
- Zero breaches to date: every client, every workload, breach-free since our founding in 2011
- 50% faster HITRUST timelines: automated control mapping, continuous evidence collection, and no-code audit dashboards can cut certification timelines in half
- Real-time visibility from prompt to pipeline: track AI model usage, data access, and infrastructure performance in a single integrated view
- Full-stack automation: from guardrails to incident response, Cloudticity automates your GenAI security lifecycle
Cloudticity helps organizations stay ahead by using AI to fight AI and defending against increasingly sophisticated attacks while letting providers, payers, and innovators focus on their mission: improving health outcomes.
Ready to Get Started?
Generative AI opens up powerful possibilities for healthcare, but only if it’s deployed responsibly and securely. Cloudticity can help you build a defense-in-depth architecture that keeps patient data safe, accelerates compliance, and frees your teams to focus on care and innovation.
- Book a free consultation to explore secure, compliant GenAI deployments on AWS
- Download our Generative AI starter guide
- Read the GenAI security best practices blog post
- Watch the full webinar
