CyberRidge for Healthcare
Health data stays sensitive for life. Protect it in transit.
CyberRidge Carmel is a Photonic Layer Security system for the fiber links between hospitals, labs and clinics. It spreads, encrypts and buries the optical signal below the noise floor, so patient records, imaging and research data in transit cannot be harvested for later decryption. It adds zero latency and complements existing encryption.
The data that’s unrecordable stays protected
Secure the links between your medical sites
EHR replication, imaging transfers, and research data move between hospitals, labs and clinics. Ensure they’re protected where interception happens: on the fiber.
No impact on clinical systems
Protection adds zero latency at 100–200 Gb/s, so large imaging files and real-time clinical systems keep running as always.
Demonstrate data protection
Add a monitored control on data-in-transit that supports your privacy and security obligations.
How Carmel fits your network
Protect the data, bury the signal
The signal is spread across a multi-terahertz spectrum, encrypted and buried below the optical noise floor.
Sub-second key changes
Optical keys change multiple times per second and travel embedded in light, not stored digitally on the link.
Layered with existing cryptography
Complements PQC, TLS and IPsec in a defense-in-depth architecture.
Fits your security operations
Monitoring and alerts feed into the SIEM, SOC and IT service tools your teams already use.
Frequently asked questions
Why is health data a target for harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks?
A medical history or genome cannot be changed like a password, so health data stays sensitive for life. Traffic recorded today can be decrypted once computing power allows. CyberRidge Carmel blocks the recording step: the signal on the fiber is spread, encrypted and buried below the optical noise floor.
How can hospitals protect data moving between sites?
EHR replication, imaging transfers and research data move between hospitals, labs and clinics over fiber. CyberRidge Carmel protects those links at the physical layer, so anyone tapping the fiber sees optical noise rather than a recordable signal.
Does link protection affect imaging transfers or clinical systems?
CyberRidge Carmel supports 100–200 Gb/s per link and adds zero latency, so large imaging files and real-time clinical systems keep running as usual.
Can a hospital get this protection through its telecom provider?
Yes. Carmel can be delivered as a managed service: telecom operators can deploy it on selected routes and offer protected connectivity under per-link subscription pricing, with central monitoring through Trekker NMS.
Evidence and further reading
A clip-on coupler can copy an entire fiber link
In a CyberRidge demonstration, a clip-on optical coupler that sells online for a few hundred dollars silently captured the full data stream of a live fiber link. No fiber was cut and no alarm was triggered.
Read about the demonstrationGartner Cool Vendor 2025
CyberRidge has been named a Cool Vendor in the Gartner® Cool Vendors in Data Security, 2025 report.
Read the announcementHow to mitigate the risk of HNDL attacks
A guide to Harvest Now, Decrypt Later attacks: how traffic is harvested from fiber, and how to protect data in transit.
Read the guide