HIMSS23: Mitigating Risk for Healthcare in an Increasingly Connected Environment

From bedside medical equipment to clinicians’ mobile devices, healthcare organizations have a complex ecosystem that can expand and contract as needs and teams change.
An organization can have more than 26,000 network-connected devices on average, according to a 2022 Proofpoint and Ponemon Institute report. Insecure medical devices are a top cybersecurity concern, but only 51 percent of security professionals say their organization has a prevention and response plan for an attack.
These security practitioners also are worried about supply chain …

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