#111 - When the Internet Breaks: What the Cloudflare Outage Taught Healthcare About Risk

When a major internet provider like Cloudflare has an outage, many healthcare organizations discover the hard way that their "mission-critical" systems are only as reliable as the invisible vendors behind them. This webinar uses the recent Cloudflare incident as a real-world case study to show how availability fits into the HIPAA Security Rule, why third-party and "fourth-party" dependencies belong in every risk analysis, and how to prepare so the next big internet disruption is a controlled event, not a scramble.Key Topics:Use the Cloudflare outage as a practical, real-world example of how infrastructure failures affect patient portals, telehealth, logins, and day-to-day healthcare operations, and why availability is a compliance issue, not just an IT headache.Connect the dots between the HIPAA Security Rule's requirements for availability, risk analysis, and contingency planning, and learn how to document third- and fourth-party dependencies in a way that stands up to audits and real incidents.Walk through practical, non-technical steps to strengthen downtime planning, vendor oversight, and internal communication so your teams know exactly what to do the next time "the internet breaks."Resources:Learn more about healthcare compliance systems: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠epicompliance.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Explore healthcare compliance training and weekly webinars: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠epicompliance.com/training-in...⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Originally Recorded: December 2, 2025.