Connected medical devices and other mobile health technologies are a true double-edged sword: They have the potential to play a transformational role in healthcare, but may also expose healthcare organisations and patients to security risks. In today’s increasingly connected healthcare landscape, hundreds of thousands of medical devices such as patient monitors, infusion pumps, ventilators, and imaging modalities – many of which are life-sustaining or life-supporting – currently reside on hospital networks across the world. Even more medical devices are accessible via wireless technologies, such as insulin pumps and pacemakers.
Effective medical device cybersecurity offers end to end security that complies with and builds upon global regulations to make medical devices and services robust against cyber attacks.
Threat actors continue to shift their sights to attack vectors including IoT, Operational technology (OT) and connected industrial and medical systems.
Attackers had access to more stolen credentials. Securing credentials and access controls is more important than ever.
Patching vulnerabilities is still a problem for many organizations and cybercriminals know that.
Philips medical grade cybersecurity solutions encompass the provision of on-site Biomedical engineers. The combination of Philips security processes and on-site support ensure cybersecurity is in place. This reflects our Operational Intelligence approach to integrate people, processes and technology.
Stef Hoffman Chief Information Security Officer, Philips
In this short feature, we explore the must-knows and must-deploys for managing healthcare cybersecurity as a COO or C-suite leader, pose the key questions all COOs need to be asking themselves and outline top tips for preventing a healthcare data breaches and cybersecurity threats.
Within the complex, transforming healthcare system, there is a highly specific area of cybersecurity that goes beyond the arena of IT and demands specific health systems expertise. Read about this rapidly evolving, highly regulated and vital niche and why it’s key to operational effectiveness.
Discover why effective medical device cybersecurity requires collaboration between stakeholders, such as hospitals, manufacturers, regulatory agencies such as the FDA and the research community. They are essential to successful end-to-end protection of hospitals and their patients.
Read how to safeguard medical devices and take steps towards creating an enterprise-wide resilience strategy.
Overview of the Philips cybersecurity suite of services
*The following Cybersecurity services will only be available for delivery in North America in 2021 for selected Philips modalities.
Philips Protection services help customers keep their systems secure through coordinated vulnerability disclosures, medically validated patching, network segmentation.
Philips detection, respond and recover services help customers to identify their medical assets, and monitor the security posture of their medical systems 24x7 and, where needed, trigger response & recovery workflows, as well as helping with recovery from cybersecurity events.
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