Webinar: Strengthening Remote Access in Healthcare with Zero Trust
Let’s talk about some of the major evolutions happening in healthcare. This is of course not a comprehensive list, but a few of the major shifts that are leading to new opportunities for bad actors.
Remote care
While innovations, like remote care, optimize care delivery, they also introduce new security challenges. Remote care requires access to EMRs, PHI, virtual visits and remote patient monitoring devices coming from multiple channels: Data centers, cloud providers and SaaS providers. Security teams must also manage the IT infrastructure and connectivity between hospitals and facilities and patients. This shift toward decentralized care model expands the attack surface and makes securing the entire network much more painstaking.
Proliferation of connected devices
Connected medical and non-medical devices now make up a sizable portion of a hospital’s network. MRI machines, IV pumps, blood pressure monitors, laptops and security cameras, and even HVAC systems.
Getting complete visibility across these devices can be extremely challenging, especially for providers practicing remote care delivery models – double the risks. Devices are often connected to complex medical IT environments located in medical centers, remote clinics and patient homes. This widens the endpoint sprawl, making every device a potential target. Not to mention many IoT and IoMT devices are both critical to provider operations and highly insecure.
Increasing complexity of medical IT environments
Applications and services are now hosted in data centers and the cloud, or they’re delivered by SaaS providers, while clinicians deliver care from anywhere using an array of connected medical devices. Many of these run on antiquated operating systems, and often cannot be patched or secured effectively. Security teams are tasked with managing these increasingly complex IT environments, which require significant technical resources.
Organizations sometimes try to solve these challenges with single platforms, which often does not give you best-of-breed solutions across your organization’s needs.
These trends aren’t just for medical facilities, but insurance carriers face very similar challenges around increasingly sophisticated ransomware attacks, heightened focus on data privacy regulations, integration of AI and ML, expansion of zero trust security models (which we’ll discuss), increased adoption of cloud security solutions, and increased focus on endpoint security.
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