Franciscan Alliance operates 12 hospital campuses across Indiana and Illinois, anchoring a Catholic healthcare system that dates to 1875. The attack surface is what you'd expect from a regional provider at that scale: medical records systems, connected devices across clinical environments, clinic and home health infrastructure, and the sprawling identity-and-access landscape of a 16,000-plus workforce. Healthcare remains one of the most targeted verticals - ransomware campaigns, credential theft, and supply-chain exposure all hit harder when uptime is measured in patient outcomes.
Security work here means defending systems where the threat model isn't abstract: disrupted operations have direct clinical consequences. The network spans hospital campuses, outpatient practices, and home health services spread across the Midwest, each with its own endpoint and access management challenges. Expect to deal with HIPAA compliance requirements, legacy medical device protocols, and the identity sprawl that comes with a faith-based organization running a large, distributed workforce across multiple states.
Franciscan Alliance's mission centers on continuing Christ's Ministry in the Franciscan tradition - compassionate care covering physical, mental, and spiritual needs. That mission-driven culture shapes how the organization operates, but the security challenges are grounded in the same realities every large health system faces: protecting patient data, maintaining operational resilience, and securing infrastructure that can't afford downtime.
