InterSystems has been building the plumbing since 1978. The privately held Cambridge, Massachusetts company makes high-performance database management systems, integration engines, and analytics software - the kind of infrastructure that sits under healthcare information exchanges, financial platforms, government systems, and manufacturing operations across more than 80 countries. When you're managing over one billion patient records and pulling data from more than 20,000 healthcare exchange sources, the attack surface isn't theoretical; it's architectural.
The company's flagship platform, InterSystems IRIS, handles both SQL and NoSQL workloads with integrated data processing and analytics - a single stack where a compromised interface can cascade fast. HealthShare enables interoperability across disparate healthcare systems, and TrakCare runs clinical and administrative workflows for care delivery organizations. These are systems where data integrity failures don't just mean downtime; they mean wrong drug dosages, misrouted records, or leaked protected health information.
Security work here spans the full lifecycle: hardening database engines that serve mission-critical workloads, locking down integration endpoints between institutional systems, enforcing access controls on platforms that touch regulated data across healthcare, finance, and government verticals. The threat model includes supply-chain compromise of integration layers, credential abuse across federated systems, and the persistent challenge of securing data at rest and in transit across heterogeneous environments that weren't always designed with zero trust in mind.
