Digital Health
Your platform is built to be secure. It has been assessed, penetration tested and documented, and you can produce the evidence when a buyer asks for it.
None of that covers the router your support lead is connected through from their spare room.
Digital health companies tend to be distributed by design: engineers in one city, clinical operations in another, contractors and part-time specialists connecting from home, coworking spaces and hotels. The security of the application is well governed. The security of the networks people reach it from is usually nobody’s job.
The Overlooked Risk
Most off-the-shelf routers, the kind found in homes and shared spaces, share the same weaknesses:
- They ship with firmware that is already out of date
- They are awkward to update
- They offer no separation from other devices on the same network
That means your developers, support staff and clinical operations team may be reaching patient data through a network nobody has assessed. Encrypted-connectivity clients and endpoint tools both help, and neither isolates a device from what else is on the local network.
The risk here is not theoretical. Exploitation of edge-device and VPN vulnerabilities rose from 3% to 22% of vulnerability-related breaches in a single year, according to the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report. Attackers have moved to the layer nobody manages, and home networks are that layer.
A Simpler, More Reliable Approach
Loxada replaces that uncertainty with a secure, m
Loxada replaces the unmanaged router with a **Loxada secure router**, pre-configured and centrally managed, routing traffic through Loxada’s secure connectivity layer, an encrypted connection from the device out to the internet.
Each device:
Runs Loxada’s secure firmware in place of the manufacturer’s, and cannot be reconfigured locally.
Creates a separate work network, isolated from other devices on the local connection.
Updates automatically, using Loxada’s secure firmware.
Blocks known malicious domains, dropping requests to domains on Loxada’s aggregated blocklist before they resolve.
Returns to a secure state after a factory reset or relocation.
There is nothing for users to install, nothing to maintain, and no reliance on anyone remembering to follow good practice.
Built for Modern, Growing Teams
Digital health companies rarely have the IT function their compliance obligations imply. Loxada is designed for that reality: devices are shipped ready to use, managed centrally, and revoked centrally when a contractor’s engagement ends or someone leaves.
It works alongside your existing stack, your identity provider, your endpoint tooling, your encrypted-connectivity client, rather than replacing any of it, and it needs no user training.
Answering the Questions Buyers Actually Ask
For digital health companies, security is not only a risk question. It is a sales question. NHS bodies, integrated care systems, insurers and enterprise customers all run assurance processes before they will contract, and those processes increasingly reach past the application.
Loxada gives you a documented answer at the security layer where answers can be challenging:
UK GDPR, which requires appropriate technical measures around access to personal data, including special category health data.
NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit submissions, where remote working and device management are recurring areas of scrutiny.
Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) and similar buyer assurance processes, where technical security is assessed alongside clinical safety and interoperability.
Cyber Essentials, when firmware currency and secure configuration are directly in scope.
Enterprise and insurer due diligence, where “how do your remote staff connect?” is a standard question.
Deployment is fully auditable, with monthly security reports and device-status visibility, so you can evidence coverage rather than describe an intention.
Loxada strengthens one layer, the networks outside your control that your people connect from. It is a preventive control providing deployment coverage and configuration assurance, not monitoring, detection or containment.
Why Digital Health Companies Choose Loxada
- No user training and nothing for staff to install
- Fully managed secure routers, deployable at whatever scale you are at
- Works alongside your existing tools and platform controls
- Gives assurance teams a concrete answer about remote access
- Scales with contractors and part-time clinical staff as easily as employees
