Reliable, Secure, and Role-Aware Application Delivery for Modern Medical IT
In today’s digitally driven healthcare environment, Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) are no longer luxury items; they are mission-critical components. From ensuring 24/7 access to clinical systems to protecting patient data and enabling remote care, the right ADC solution can make the difference between operational efficiency and costly disruption. And in a world where compliance and cybersecurity are tightly interwoven, ADCs must go beyond load balancing to support smarter, safer, and more resilient healthcare infrastructure.
Radware Alteon stands out as an ADC platform purpose-built to meet these evolving needs. In this blog, we will look at key areas where Alteon brings tangible value to healthcare IT and makes it easier to deliver fast, secure, and always-available digital experiences for providers and patients alike.
Reliability That Saves Lives
In hospitals and clinics, downtime isn’t just inconvenient, it can directly impact patient safety. Systems like Electronic Health Records (EHRs), diagnostic imaging tools, and lab portals must remain accessible at all times. Alteon’s constant health monitoring of backend servers, ensure traffic is only directed to responsive, functioning services, automatically removing failed servers from the pool to prevent application errors. In practice, this means that physicians accessing patient charts or labs at 2 a.m. won’t be slowed down or blocked by backend failures. Its infrastructure reliability is designed with life-and-death urgency in mind.
Equally important is Alteon High Availability (HA) mechanisms designed for healthcare-grade uptime. Alteon’s High Availability (HA) modes ensures seamless and reliable application performance. They minimize downtime by clustering Alteon units, enabling immediate failover if one fails due to a power outage, network malfunction or any other issue, and protecting against hardware or software issues that could disrupt services.
Securing the Digital Front Door to Healthcare
In healthcare, protecting patient data is not optional, it’s a legal and ethical imperative. With compliance requirements like HIPAA, GDPR, and HITECH setting the bar, Radware Alteon helps organizations meet these mandates by delivering SSL/TLS offloading that keeps data encrypted from end to end while easing the load on backend servers. Support for TLS 1.3 and Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) ensures that even if a key is compromised in the future, past communications remain secure. But security in healthcare goes far beyond the transport layer. As patient portals, appointment systems, and remote diagnostic tools become standard, these digital touchpoints are increasingly exposed to cyber threats. Alteon’s integrated Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspects all incoming traffic to block OWASP Top 10 attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting, while also detecting bots, credential-stuffing attempts, and suspicious access patterns. For example, healthcare teams can enforce custom policies for prescription refills or control access to imaging records based on user roles. By combining encrypted traffic handling, deep application-layer security, and intelligent threat mitigation in one platform, Alteon ensures patient-facing apps are both user-friendly and thoroughly protected, giving healthcare providers the confidence to innovate digitally without compromising privacy, compliance, or patient trust.
Role-Aware Access That Fits Healthcare Workflows
From radiologists and surgeons to administrative assistants and patients, healthcare ecosystems include a diverse range of users. Each user has different access needs and security requirements. Alteon supports granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) that maps user permissions to identity providers like LDAP, RADIUS, and SAML. This means IT teams can define who gets access to what, when, and from where and thus enabling workflows that are secure and convenient.
For example, a hospital might configure Alteon so that a staff nurse can access medication records only during shifts from hospital-owned devices, while a remote billing agent gets restricted access to anonymized financial data through a virtual private network (VPN). By supporting Single Sign-On (SSO) and fine-grained identity federation, Alteon helps simplify access while enforcing strict segmentation and auditability, which is key for both compliance and efficiency.
Conclusion: More Than a Load Balancer—A Clinical Enabler
In healthcare, the bar for IT infrastructure is higher than almost any other industry. Performance, security, uptime, and compliance aren’t optional, they are the baseline. Radware Alteon rises to meet these demands, offering a robust ADC platform that goes far beyond traffic distribution. It delivers high availability that saves lives, encryption that meets the toughest regulatory standards, secure access tailored for clinical roles, and real-time protection for the apps that connect providers with patients.
For any healthcare provider building out private data centres or private clouds, Alteon is not just an ADC, it’s a foundational tool for delivering safer, smarter, and more resilient digital healthcare.
Radware Alteon ADC: Power, Flexibility, and Security Without Limits
Radware’s Alteon is the most complete and adaptable Application Delivery Controller on the market, delivering everything from L3/4 and L7 load balancing to advanced TLS encryption. It seamlessly integrates across public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and private environments (VMware, Nutanix, OpenStack), with built-in automation support via Ansible. Alteon includes enterprise-grade security such as WAF, bot and API protection, and various security-oriented feeds. It can also be delivered as a managed service, freeing up the organization’s personnel from dealing with security aspects of their business. With Radware’s innovative Global Elastic License (GEL), organizations gain unmatched cost flexibility, scaling bandwidth, features, and instances independently to match business growth without compromise.
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