Managed Cloud Services
Azure Cloud and Microsoft 365 services that deliver scalability and cost efficiency with reduced risk
Enabling healthcare innovators and specialty providers through managed cloud services with expert operations, security, and compliance management

Managed Cloud Services Designed to Meet Healthcare’s Needs within Microsoft Azure
Leveraging data and applications in the cloud provides healthcare organizations with a cost-effective path to scaling operations, but managing security and compliance in cloud environments is not exactly the same as traditional IT. Finding a partner that understands your unique challenges and will help you achieve your goals while mitigating risk is key to success.
Clearwater’s Managed Cloud Services for Azure provides design and implementation guidance, but the ultimate value is the 24/7 operations and oversight by healthcare experts. These services enhance your ability to achieve cloud security, maximize performance, and maintain compliance as you grow.
Cloud Confidence
While cloud platforms come with inherited controls for HIPAA/HITRUST and other compliance standards, they don’t cover all of the responsibilities needed to ensure security and compliance for your organization. Clearwater manages all of these responsibilities on your behalf in the cloud environment, so you can be confident knowing you have the expertise to protect your organizations’ ability to provide care and deliver innovative solutions. Planning, design, implementation, continuous monitoring, and optimization are all covered by a team that is committed to serving the needs of the healthcare ecosystem.
Clearwater, a Microsoft partner, provides the healthcare expertise to the following managed cloud services.
Azure Cloud
Scalable Services and Security
- Network, Servers, Service Components
- Clearwater 24/7 Security and Operations
Microsoft 365
Full Operational and Compliance Support
- Mail, Storage, Collaboration
- Policy Management
- Security Logging
Identity Management
Directory Services
- Entra ID Secure Configuration
- Monitoring
- Change Management
Virtual Desktop
Reduce Security Exposure
- Active Virtual Desktop (AVD)
- Ensure System Availability
- Security for Data and Privacy
Security Management
24/7 Security Operations
- Endpoint Threat Detection
- Extended Security to Combine Security
- Log Management
- Change Management
Compliance
Design, Implement, and Manage to Meet Compliance Needs
- Vulnerability Management
- Adherence to Policy & Procedures
- Verification going beyond cloud compliance inheritance templates
We provide flexible and scalable managed Microsoft Cloud Services for Azure and Office 365 solutions with a comprehensive understanding of healthcare business and compliance needs, environments, and associated security risks.
Clearwater works with you on an action plan that maximizes your budget and addresses the technology and expert gaps so you can make the best decisions for your business. When done right, Managed Cloud Services make it easier for HITRUST certification and a way to cost-optimize and enhance cyber resiliency. Clearwater’s healthcare-only focus and experience across all market segments provide a level of efficiency others cannot match.
Expedite Cloud Service and App Delivery
Agility with Compliance and Cybersecurity:
- Expertise in Azure cloud, healthcare applications, and risk management to ensure market opportunities are not missed
- Quicker validation of compliance with key healthcare standards, including NIST CSF, HIPAA, and HITRUST
- Additional services are available to support Web App design, development, and testing from Clearwater experts

Support for Cloud and Extended Environments with Managed Security
Consolidate Service Providers:
- Accelerate security maturity with Clearwater Managed Cloud and Managed Security Services spanning your Azure environments and services and providing coverage across other environments on premises or otherwise
- Endpoint/server security and ransomware protection, log management, vulnerability management, and firewall/network security can be additionally provided for on-premises locations for cost-effective security, compliance, and risk management
Optimize Across Specialty Care Locations
Scalability and Growth:
- Quick adjustments for increased data, processing, and user load
- Consolidate diverse infrastructure environments into one operational model addressing security and compliance leveraging Microsoft cloud and services
- Increase value in the market and cost-optimize with built-in risk management
Hybrid Cloud Security & Assistance
HIPAA coverage from all angles: Migration, DevOps, Hybrid Cloud
Cloud Compliance
All of our cloud services are designed and provided with deep knowledge of the compliance landscape facing healthcare organizations. This management is integrated into cloud migration services, cloud consulting, and hybrid assistance. The benefit of Clearwater is that it provides the security focus you need, along with the expertise to optimize and achieve continuous compliance. Depending on your needs, our services can align with the specific compliance frameworks or standards that will help to achieve your compliance goals.
HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI DSS, CMMC, NIST 800-53, 405(d)HICP
Cloud Migration & Planning
Moving services from on-premise to Cloud or shifting cloud providers Clearwater can help with consulting and execution while addressing any healthcare business or cloud risks along the way.
Hybrid Cloud
We understand the power of the Hybrid cloud and the situations in which it may be needed. Talk to us if you need support, design, security, and compliance management to support your healthcare business.
Partnering with DevOps
Clearwater can review cloud architecture, configurations, and management plans with your DevOps teams, collaborating to optimize HIPAA security and compliance management for your healthcare solution and business, thereby removing obstacles that can be costly to redesign while growing your business.
Cloud Security Posture Management
Our cloud security expertise and healthcare enterprise risk management with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools
Cloud Risk Management
At Clearwater, we understand the complexity and pressure of securing cloud environments.
That’s why we offer a comprehensive Cloud Risk Management service with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), powered by industry-leading tools and supported by experienced cloud security professionals.
Our team provides 24/7 continuous monitoring and expert remediation guidance, helping you stay ahead of misconfigurations, exposure, and human error—some of the leading causes of cloud breaches. We’re here to reduce your risk, ease the burden on your team, and strengthen your overall security posture.
What does Cloud Security Risk Management provide?
CSPM helps prevent breaches caused by human error. Cloud Security Risk Management provides cloud experts that address the alerts and issues detected by CSPM and focuses specifically on the most significant risks for healthcare organizations. The service provides quick remediation or action plan coordination and consulting on how best to address misconfigurations, policy violations, and compliance drift across cloud environments. Our services are available across Microsoft Azure Commercial, GCC, and GCC High, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud.
Ask us about how we support multi-cloud environments and hybrid configurations
Increased Cloud Visibility and Control
Cloud Security Risk Management goes beyond just identifying cloud security posture risk.
As a service, it brings cloud experts focused on the unique risk and cloud infrastructure issues facing healthcare organizations. It is a way to address the growing types of cloud vulnerabilities and the risks that come with the susceptible expanded attack surface of cloud environments.
What are the Common Security Issues Cloud Risk Management Prevents?
Overly Permissive Identity and Access Management Policies
Cloud Risk Management looks at what CSPM flags as identity or role policies that allow overly permissive actions, which can give users full admin rights unintentionally. Our experts help organizations align their policies and enforcement of them across cloud environments to mimize risk and address HIPAA security needs.
Unencrypted Databases
Continual monitoring of cloud databases and escalation when a resource is detected and found to be misconfigured without the proper encryption at rest (e.g., AWS RDS, Azure SQL). We assist with DevOps and migration to ensure that all cloud data is protected and configured to achieve the highest protection and compliance needs. Cloud risk management ensures that any new resources or changes to existing ones follow the necessary baseline for continuous security and data protection.
Weak Security Groups or Firewall Rules
When security groups or firewall rules are open to internet traffic, the entire cloud environment can be at risk. Cloud risk management continually monitors changes in group and firewall configurations that are unique to each cloud provider and gives visibility to the alterations that weaken the security and compliance posture for the organization. Our experts coordinate and help educate on the best practices to ensure the security of your unique cloud environment and prioritize a detailed action plan to quickly close security gaps.
Missing or Incomplete Audit Logging
Our experts respond to alerts when logging services like AWS CloudTrail , Azure Diagnostic, Microsoft Defender, or Azure Activity logs are not enabled or misconfigured, impacting forensic visibility, and security management.
Shadow Admin Accounts
Continuous monitoring finds users with administrator privileges added outside of change control processes or policy. Cloud experts look at why escalated privileges occurred and investigate if there is any insider threat risk or cloud compromise.
Exposed Sensitive Files in the Cloud
Cloud risk management reviews the common ways cloud data can be exposed, Azure Blob Storage and AWS S3 Buckets are scanned, and our experts are notified if confidential data (e.g., medical records, credentials) is stored in blobs/buckets with public or anonymous access. Our experts will immediately take action to remediate and investigate if any data was improperly accessed.
Expired or Unrotated Access Keys
Key management is especially important for services and user accounts. Cloud security risk management will monitor and flag old or unrotated access keys that can expose an organization to credential theft. Our experts work with healthcare organizations to ensure that policy and security management is optimized across cloud environments.
Contact us to learn more about Clearwater
Featured Experts
Your Clearwater Managed Cloud Services team is led by cybersecurity experts who know what it takes to keep your organization safe around the clock.

SME Highlight
Steve Akers
Steve has over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity and compliance and more than 15 years in security and consulting services.

SME Highlight
John R Fitch II – CISSP, MS Security Expert
John Fitch is an Azure Cloud Security Architect at Clearwater, bringing Clearwater clients over 20 years of experience in cloud […]
Why Clearwater?
Security is complex, and HIPAA or HITRUST compliance is not enough
Regardless of size or type of business, organizations across the healthcare spectrum are all competing for the expertise needed to mitigate cyber threats and develop strategies to protect data within entwined environments.
Clearwater knows security, and we are continuously optimizing our 24/7 managed security services to improve outcomes and provide a path to helping you become more secure, compliant, and resilient.

Physician Practice Management/Ambulatory Care
Multiple locations supporting various healthcare services can achieve centralized support with threat detection and response and 24/7 security operations. Clearwater helps to protect the investments and growth strategies for extended clinical care and wellness services.

Digital Health
Healthcare digital innovators can protect data and operations as they grow their value. Clearwater experts thoroughly investigate all events, providing clear insight into your threats and paths for reconciliation that are risk-based, not overkill.

Medical Device/MedTech
Protect the supporting environments and systems that interact and connect to medical devices and diagnostic systems, including healthcare MDR. Clearwater managed security services identify behavioral anomalies and detect threats early, minimizing operational technology systems risk.

ClearAdvantage®
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