Tips for Health Systems on Managing Legacy Systems to Strengthen Security

Legacy operating systems and software applications are pervasive in healthcare, and they pose a serious security threat.
A 2021 report from Kaspersky Lab found that 73 percent of health systems used medical equipment running legacy operating systems. Not coincidentally, only 34 percent of organizations said they had up-to-date and adequate hardware and software security protections.
In some cases, the legacy OS is a sunsetted version of Microsoft Windows. According to the 2021 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey Report, more than one-third …

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