Healthcare
Healthcare Clinic PDPL IT Hardening
How Mignet segmented a Dubai clinic network, encrypted patient backups and mapped UAE PDPL controls — without interrupting clinic hours.
- Client:
- Multi-doctor clinic, Dubai
- Industry:
- Healthcare
- Published:
At a glance
0
Clinic-hour outages during rollout
PDPL
Controls mapped & evidenced
24/7
Monitoring after go-live
Overview
A growing Dubai clinic ran EMR, imaging and guest Wi-Fi on a flat network, with backups sitting on the same NAS as production. Leadership needed UAE PDPL-ready controls without taking rooms offline during clinic hours.
Mignet segmented clinical, guest and medical-device VLANs, moved backups to an immutable target, rolled out MFA and EDR, and produced a records-of-processing pack the clinic’s DPO could defend.
The challenge
- Patient data on a flat LAN shared with guest Wi-Fi
- Backups on the same NAS as the EMR
- No MFA on clinical mailboxes
- Change windows limited to evenings and Fridays
- Need for PDPL evidence, not just tools
Our approach
- 01
Discovery without disruption
- Mapped devices, EMR vendor and imaging flows after hours
- Identified personal-data stores for the PDPL record
- Agreed a phased VLAN cutover with a rollback
- 02
Controls
- Clinical / guest / device segmentation
- Immutable backups with a restore test
- MFA, EDR and email security
- Admin logging retained for 12 months
- 03
Evidence & handover
- Access-review export for the DPO
- Incident playbook and after-hours number
- AMC covering 24/7 monitoring
Results delivered
- No clinic-hour outage during the cutover
- Guest Wi-Fi can no longer reach EMR
- Restore test completed inside the agreed RTO
- PDPL technical measures documented for the next audit
They worked around our lists. Patients never noticed — and we finally have a pack we can show an auditor.
Frequently asked questions
Will this work with our existing EMR?
Yes. We design around the vendor’s supported topology rather than forcing a rip-and-replace.
Is this a legal PDPL opinion?
No — we implement and evidence technical measures. Legal opinions stay with your counsel.
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