CloudWave and BlueOrange Compliance: Setting a New Standard in Healthcare Cybersecurity
I’m excited to discuss a significant milestone in CloudWave’s journey to become the most trusted cybersecurity partner for healthcare organizations. We recently acquired BlueOrange Compliance—a leader in information privacy and security, regulatory compliance, and risk management services—enhancing CloudWave’s mission to deliver end-to-end healthcare cybersecurity solutions tailored to the unique needs of hospitals and health systems.
CloudWave began with a singular focus: to provide IT infrastructure and cloud solutions designed for the demands of healthcare. Founded by experts with decades of experience, our mission was never about generic IT, it was about building technology solutions that support the clinical, operational, and regulatory realities of healthcare IT systems.
From our earliest days, we understood that healthcare is different—and we built our business accordingly. As our customers’ needs evolved, the CloudWave team grew in parallel, bringing together healthcare technologists, clinicians, security professionals, and cloud architects. This dedicated team of experts built a robust healthcare cloud services platform that offers a full spectrum of managed infrastructure, private/public/edge hosting, backup, disaster recovery, and multi-cloud strategies. Our deep infrastructure roots gave us a unique advantage: we’ve not only built healthcare systems, we know exactly how to secure them.
End-to-End Security for Healthcare’s Most Critical Assets
Today, as a dedicated healthcare managed security service provider (MSSP), CloudWave protects clinical, administrative, and technical environments across hospitals and health systems in North America and worldwide. The acquisition of BlueOrange further expands our cybersecurity consulting and risk management services, combining CloudWave’s advanced threat detection, incident response, and cloud infrastructure capabilities with the company’s proven track record in compliance audits, risk assessments, and cybersecurity testing and training. The result is a comprehensive set of offerings that empower healthcare organizations to secure sensitive data, streamline compliance efforts, and mitigate evolving cyber threats.
By joining forces with BlueOrange, CloudWave strengthens its commitment to delivering end-to-end security solutions for healthcare organizations facing increasingly complex compliance landscapes, including HIPAA, HITECH, OCR, and other industry-specific regulations. Together, we offer a powerful combination of cutting-edge cybersecurity technology, deep industry expertise, and regulatory know-how.
This brings numerous benefits to the healthcare IT industry, including:
- Enhanced Security Posture for healthcare organizations through unified cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure services, data protection, and compliance services.
- Scalable Cybersecurity Solutions that adapt to evolving threats, technologies, regulatory requirements, and healthcare growth.
- Accelerated Innovation by integrating cloud-native technologies with deep regulatory insight.
We’re excited to bring integrated compliance and security risk assessments; enhanced cloud-native protection; 24/7 security monitoring with compliance-driven alerting; and deeper audit readiness and documentation support to our customers.
Ushering in a New Era of Cybersecurity
As cyber threats increase and become more sophisticated, CloudWave’s mission remains clear: to be healthcare’s steadfast technology partner, providing the infrastructure, expertise, and protection needed to navigate an increasingly complex digital landscape. With the combined power of BlueOrange’s strategic advisory and CloudWave’s healthcare DNA, we are uniquely positioned to protect hospitals from today’s most serious threats—and tomorrow’s unknowns. We’re committed to developing a comprehensive healthcare cybersecurity framework designed for the unique vulnerabilities, regulatory requirements, and operational constraints of hospitals.
In healthcare, every second matters, and every system must be secure. As we look to the future, we recognize that healthcare will continue to face unprecedented cybersecurity challenges. We’re confident that the addition of BlueOrange will enable CloudWave to deliver even greater value to our customers while staying true to the core expertise that has defined our success.
We’re excited to welcome the BlueOrange leadership team and staff to CloudWave, ensuring continuity for existing clients and leveraging new opportunities under a shared vision of securing the future of healthcare. Together, we’ll continue to innovate and protect the healthcare IT ecosystem, ensuring that hospitals and health systems can focus on their mission of providing care, confident that CloudWave has their technology environment secured.
Erik Littlejohn
CEO