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title: "Acuity Health Security Architecture"
canonical: "https://codeandcypher.com/series/acuity-health-security-architecture/"
description: "An 8-part operational blueprint translating enterprise healthcare defense into actionable code, architecture, and policies."
---

# Acuity Health Security Architecture


> An 8-part operational blueprint translating enterprise healthcare defense into actionable code, architecture, and policies.


## Index

- [Acuity Health: Part 1 — Securing the 2 AM Urgent Care (Zero Trust for Distributed Clinics)](/series/acuity-health-security-architecture/part-1-enterprise-security-architecture/index.md) (2026-09-08): Secure decentralized urgent care clinics with a lean IT team using port-level dynamic VLANs, gloved-hand MFA, EDR micro-isolation, and immutable WORM backups.

- [Acuity Health: Part 2 — Zero Trust DevSecOps & NIST SSDF](/series/acuity-health-security-architecture/part-2-architecting-zero-trust-devsecops/index.md) (2026-09-15): Operationalize NIST SP 800-218 (SSDF) and Zero Trust Architecture across cloud-native development environments, ephemeral CI/CD pipelines, and supply chains.

- [Acuity Health: Part 3 — STRIDE Threat Modeling & BOLA Elimination](/series/acuity-health-security-architecture/part-3-threat-modeling-stride-api-security/index.md) (2026-09-22): Map trust boundaries with STRIDE during sprint grooming, protect data flows, and prevent Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) in modern healthcare APIs.

- [Acuity Health: Part 4 — CI/CD Quality Gates & ISO 27001 Risk](/series/acuity-health-security-architecture/part-4-automated-ci-cd-quality-gates-iso27001-risk/index.md) (2026-09-29): Enforce automated CI/CD quality gates, track SLAs, and execute an actionable 10-step ISO 27001:2013 risk assessment across cloud healthcare workloads.

- [Acuity Health: Part 5 — Active Defense & Canary Deception](/series/acuity-health-security-architecture/part-5-active-defense-threat-hunting-canaries/index.md) (2026-10-06): Engineer active deception environments, plant canary tokens in memory and file shares, and automate blue team threat hunting across enterprise network shares.

- [Acuity Health: Part 6 — Digital Forensics & EHR VIP Breach](/series/acuity-health-security-architecture/part-6-digital-forensics-ehr-vip-breach/index.md) (2026-10-13): Acquire volatile memory, maintain cryptographic chain of custody, and correlate SQL transaction logs during a sensitive healthcare breach investigation.