Hospital security leaders without a full in-house security operations center often compare Cyber Salus and Fortified Health Security. Both sell managed security services built only for healthcare. Cyber Salus, founded in 2023 by Sher Baig, who worked in medical device cybersecurity at GE Healthcare, focuses on connected medical devices and clinical networks. Fortified Health Security, based in Tennessee, runs round-the-clock detection and response, risk assessments, and virtual CISO help for provider organizations, and has won Best in KLAS for security and privacy managed services four years running.
Hospitals whose biggest security gap is connected medical devices and that want a small, hands-on team to manage them
Founded in 2023 with revenue near $5 million, so public proof of results is thin
Health systems that need round-the-clock threat detection and response without building their own security operations center
It is a services firm, so buyers who want only a software license are a poor fit
| Axis | Cyber Salus | Fortified Health Security |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Similar Securing connected medical devices and clinical networks: asset inventory, fixing vulnerabilities, and monitoring. |
Similar Round-the-clock detection and response for the whole provider organization, plus risk assessments and virtual CISO help. |
| Overnight detection and response | Offers 24/7 security operations, and scores 6.8 on security operations outcomes. | Stronger Built around it, and scores 7.9 on overnight detection and response. |
| Medical device depth | Stronger Its founder came from medical device security at GE Healthcare, and devices are the center of its service. |
Includes medical device monitoring as one service among several. |
| Independent proof | Founded in 2023, with little published proof of results yet. | Stronger Best in KLAS for security and privacy managed services four years in a row, and published case studies with clients such as Beacon Health System. |
| Size | Revenue near $5 million. | Stronger A larger healthcare MSSP with a longer client list. |
| Getting coverage running | Scores 6.6 for speed to useful coverage. | Stronger Scores 7.2 for onboarding log sources and agreeing who escalates what. |
| Knowing what you will pay | Retainer quoted by scope, with no public price list. | Stronger Retainer quoted by endpoints, sites, and service tier, with no public price list. |
Cyber Salus is for a hospital that knows its connected medical devices are the weak spot and wants a small specialist team, led by someone from the device side, to inventory and protect them. Fortified Health Security is for a health system that cannot staff security around the clock and wants a proven healthcare MSSP to watch its logs, respond overnight, and run risk work.
Walk away from both if you only want a software license or a one-time assessment. Walk away from Cyber Salus if you need a long public track record before you sign. Walk away from Fortified if you will not share log sources with an outside firm, or if nobody on your side will act on its tickets.