Telnet Networks Becomes First Authorized Reseller of Cynerio in Canada

Providing Advanced Healthcare Network Security Solutions Across Canada

Telnet Networks, a Canadian leader in network security, visibility, and performance monitoring, is proud to announce its new partnership with Cynerio, the leading provider of healthcare cybersecurity solutions. Telnet Networks is now the first authorized value-added reseller (VAR) of Cynerio’s solutions in Canada, providing healthcare organizations with unparalleled network security tailored to their specific and unique needs.

Cynerio is recognized globally for its comprehensive, multi-layered cybersecurity platform that addresses a wide range of security needs for healthcare organizations. Their platform includes advanced Network Detection and Response (NDR-H), but extends well beyond to offer device visibility, threat detection, risk management, and incident response capabilities. By securing medical devices (IoT and IoMT), protecting patient data, and providing insights into device utilization, Cynerio empowers healthcare organizations to adopt advanced technologies while safeguarding critical assets from cyber threats and supporting compliance with key information security regulations like PIPEDA and PHIPA.

Healthcare organizations in Canada today are faced with an increasing number of security challenges combined with limited budgets and resources to allocate to Cyber Security and data protection. This partnership brings access to Cynerio’s technology and expertise in safeguarding healthcare environments to hospitals across the country.

Cynerio: The Leader in Healthcare Cybersecurity

Cynerio’s NDR-H platform stands out in the healthcare industry by providing full-spectrum threat detection, identifying vulnerabilities in connected medical devices, and enabling organizations to mitigate risks before they lead to harmful outcomes. Their unique focus on healthcare ensures that hospitals, clinics, and other medical institutions are protected from cyber threats while maintaining operational integrity and safeguarding patient privacy. Cynerio also integrates seamlessly with existing healthcare infrastructure, making adoption easy and efficient for organizations.  

Telnet Networks: Supporting Healthcare with Network Security Expertise

With over two decades of experience in providing network testing, security and visibility solutions, Telnet Networks has become a trusted partner for public sector organizations across Canada. The company specializes in helping customers achieve optimal network performance while protecting critical systems from ever-evolving cyber threats. This deep understanding of complex public sector environments enables Telnet Networks to deliver customized solutions and advice that align with regulatory and operational needs.

The new partnership between Telnet Networks and Cynerio ensures that Canadian healthcare institutions have access to Cynerio’s full range of best-in-class cybersecurity solutions backed by a trusted and experienced Canadian partner.

For more information about Telnet Networks and Cynerio’s partnership and their healthcare cybersecurity solutions, please visit telnetnetworks.ca/cynerio

About Telnet Networks

Telnet Networks is a Canadian leader in providing network security, visibility, and performance monitoring solutions to organizations across the public and private sectors. With a focus on delivering exceptional support and customer service, Telnet Networks helps organizations ensure the integrity, performance, and security of their networks in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

About Cynerio

Cynerio’s Healthcare Cybersecurity Platform is tailored to safeguard medical environments against constantly evolving threats. From real-time detection of malicious network activity to strategic microsegmentation guidance, Cynerio delivers a robust suite of proactive and reactive protections that elevate the security of healthcare facilities and ensure the safety of the patients they serve. Learn more at www.cynerio.com.

Healthcare-Specific NDR: A Critical Layer in Securing Canada’s Connected Medical Devices

Canada’s healthcare sector is undergoing a digital transformation, with hospitals increasingly relying on connected medical devices (CMDs) like infusion pumps and imaging equipment to deliver better patient outcomes and optimize staff efficiency. While this shift improves diagnostic and treatment capabilities, it also introduces new cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Healthcare-specific Network Detection and Response (NDR) solutions are emerging as a critical line of defense, designed to protect these vital devices from evolving cyber threats.

Rising Threats to Medical Device Security

CMDs are attractive targets for cybercriminals. These devices often lack robust security features, making them easy entry points into a healthcare network. In some cases, a single compromised device can allow attackers to access sensitive patient records or disrupt critical operations.

For example, in 2021, Newfoundland and Labrador’s healthcare system fell victim to a ransomware attack, causing weeks of disruption to patient services and $16 million in cost including $5 million for victim credit monitoring services. This attack demonstrated how unprotected networks and devices could have catastrophic consequences, delaying medical treatments, exposing sensitive data and creating significant unexpected expenses to remediate.

Health Canada’s Cybersecurity Framework

Health Canada’s Guidance for Pre-Market Cybersecurity Requirements for Medical Devices highlights the importance of integrating cybersecurity into every stage of a device’s lifecycle. This includes securing data transmissions, enabling device monitoring, and ensuring timely patch management.

Healthcare-specific NDR solutions support these principles by continuously monitoring CMD traffic for anomalies. These tools provide healthcare IT teams with the visibility needed to detect and respond to threats in real-time, ensuring compliance with Health Canada’s recommendations and bolstering patient safety.

Aligning with the National Research Council’s Cybersecurity Goals

The National Research Council (NRC) has underscored the critical need to safeguard healthcare networks from ransomware and advanced persistent threats (APTs). According to the NRC, the increasing reliance on IoT-enabled medical devices makes robust cybersecurity a national priority. NDR solutions directly address these concerns by automating threat detection, response, and containment.



How Healthcare-Specific NDR Solutions Help

Healthcare-specific NDR solutions, like those offered by Cynerio, provide a targeted approach to securing medical devices. These solutions:

  1. Continuous Monitoring: They analyze device behavior in real time, detecting anomalies indicative of cyber threats. This reduces the risk of undetected breaches.
  2. Segmenting Networks: By isolating medical devices from general IT systems, NDR solutions minimize the impact of a breach and protect critical patient data.
  3. Threat Response: These tools automate responses to identified threats, reducing downtime and mitigating potential harm to patients.
  4. Regulatory Compliance: Solutions designed for healthcare ensure compliance with standards such as Health Canada’s guidelines for medical device cybersecurity

The Road Ahead

To remain resilient in the face of evolving threats, Canadian hospitals must integrate healthcare-specific NDR solutions into their cybersecurity strategies. These tools not only address Health Canada’s and the NRC’s cybersecurity mandates but also provide long-term value by enabling safer, more efficient patient care.

As the healthcare landscape continues to innovate, a robust cybersecurity foundation is non-negotiable.

Layering NDR, EDR and XDR for Stronger Defenses

Combining Network Detection and Response (NDR), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) provides significant value to organizations by enhancing visibility, improving threat detection, and streamlining response processes across an enterprise’s infrastructure. Here’s a breakdown of the benefits:

1. Holistic Visibility Across Environments

  • NDR offers visibility into network traffic, covering devices that may not have agents installed (like unmanaged devices, IoT, or cloud instances).
  • EDR focuses on securing individual endpoints by monitoring system-level activities (processes, files, user actions).
  • XDR brings these together, providing a consolidated view of activity across both networks and endpoints. This enables security teams to see threats as they move across the network, endpoints, cloud, and other security layers. As a result, attacks that span multiple layers (like phishing leading to lateral movement within the network) can be more easily detected and mitigated.

2. Cross-Layer Threat Correlation

When NDR and EDR are combined, they provide rich datasets that XDR platforms use to correlate events across the organization. For example, XDR can link an alert from an endpoint with unusual traffic patterns detected by NDR. This allows security teams to quickly understand the full scope of an attack, from initial compromise to network propagation, leading to more efficient investigations and faster incident response.

By correlating these disparate data points, XDR reduces false positives and provides greater context around each threat, enabling better decision-making. This makes XDR an ideal solution for detecting complex attacks that target multiple parts of an organization simultaneously.

3. Enhanced Threat Detection and Faster Response

  • NDR excels at detecting threats that evade traditional security defenses, like lateral movement or advanced persistent threats (APTs) that exploit network vulnerabilities.
  • EDR is highly effective at identifying endpoint-specific threats such as ransomware or malware targeting individual machines.
  • XDR enables automation and orchestration of the response to these combined threats. By integrating response capabilities from both NDR and EDR, XDR can prioritize the most significant threats and trigger automated responses like isolating infected endpoints or blocking malicious network traffic, significantly speeding up containment and remediation.

4. Reduced Alert Fatigue and Improved Efficiency

Managing separate NDR and EDR solutions can result in alert fatigue—with numerous false positives and multiple uncorrelated alerts. XDR helps reduce this by aggregating, correlating, and prioritizing events from both sources, providing a unified platform that streamlines threat detection and response workflows.

With XDR’s single-pane-of-glass view, security teams no longer have to switch between multiple tools to investigate and resolve incidents. This results in reduced operational complexity, improved detection accuracy, and more efficient use of security resources.

5. Adaptability to Modern, Complex Infrastructures

As organizations adopt more cloud services and IoT devices, traditional security tools become less effective. NDR, EDR, and XDR together offer protection across distributed and hybrid environments, providing security teams with the ability to detect threats regardless of where they originate—whether in the cloud, on-premises, or from connected devices.

In combination, NDR, EDR, and XDR offer a layered, defense-in-depth approach that enables organizations to detect, investigate, and respond to threats more effectively than relying on individual security solutions. This integration significantly enhances the ability to protect against sophisticated, multi-stage attacks that target multiple vectors in an organization’s digital environment.