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Blog · May 9, 2025

From Ransomware to Resilience: Strengthening Security with IRE

Isolated Recovery Environments give hospitals an air-gapped, immutable path to keep Epic available when ransomware hits.

Ransomware recovery for Epic requires more than backups. Clinicians need a trusted, rapidly activatable path to care data.

An Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE) or Cloud Read-Only deployment can be delivered in about eight weeks—immutable, air-gapped, and designed for near real-time RPO.

Health systems like The Vancouver Clinic have used this model to harden resiliency without multi-year programs.

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