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THE LARGER CONTEXT More and more medical devices are getting hooked up to hospital and home networks and the Internet. In Singapore's public health facilities, for example, about 15% or over 16,000 medical devices have Internet connectivity.
The following is a guest article by Ryan Witt, HealthcareCybersecurity Leader at Proofpoint The Internet of Medical Things, or IoMT, is a deep web of interconnected devices that increasingly plays a vital role in care delivery. About Ryan Witt Ryan Witt is a healthcarecybersecurity leader at the cybersecurity company Proofpoint.
For example, Lloyd’s of London recently announced its coverages would no longer include cyber attacks from nation-states such as Russia and China. Small and rural hospitals are being priced out of cyber insurance coverage, during a time when remediation costs for a breach or hacking incident can exceed $10 million.
In addition, lawmakers can aid the healthcare industry by clarifying that discovering vulnerabilities in good faith does not constitute a breach. Otherwise, the healthcare industry loses a significant advantage in identifying and fixing vulnerabilities before cyberattacks occur.
All organizations, including those in critical infrastructure industries such as healthcare, need to consider a three-pronged approach to protecting sensitive data: monitoring user behavior, looking at content accessed by users, and applying additional controls to the most highly targeted users—for example, those with privileged access.
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