HealthTech Magazine

Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in protecting data, restoring infrastructure and recovering critical applications after cyberattacks. Recovery also depends on the endpoint, yet it rarely receives the same attention in planning, even though clinical workflows can’t fully resume until those devices are trusted and working again. A U.S. clinical genomics company rece...

Healthcare organizations that want to understand where they might have security gaps have several options. A vulnerability scan will expose obvious holes in their defenses, while a penetration test run by a third-party facilitator can find more subtle weaknesses. But for an organization to be truly cyber resilient, it must know with confidence exactly how it will respond to an a...

When thinking of evolving healthcare technology, a simple printer sitting in the background may not come to mind. But without these peripherals, busy care teams would be writing critical patient information by hand. As a nurse working in a chaotic medical-surgical unit of an urban hospital, I’ve seen doctors’ handwriting. Enough said. So, in that sense, printers are the real her...

Healthcare organizations face an identity conundrum. Clinicians, administrators, contractors and support staff all need reliable access to applications and patient information, but every additional identity and authentication point creates another opportunity for attackers. The challenge? How to protect those accounts without slowing down the people who need to get into critical...

Walk into a modern enterprise security operations center today, and you'll discover just how inexpensive 65-inch monitors are: The walls are covered with them, showing dashboards from security information and event management (SIEM) consoles, extended detection and response (XDR) endpoint security platforms, firewall intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and data loss protection so...