Using Security Intelligence to Protect Healthcare IT: Securing the Attack Surface with Tech at the Edge

In 2023, 725 data breaches were reported to the Department of Health and Human Services, according to HIPAA Journal. More than 133 million records were exposed or impermissibly disclosed. That’s just one risk in healthcare ecosystems.

The dangers extend beyond that: every hospital bed is connected to the internet.

People die when hospitals lose power – and if a hospital’s IT systems are compromised all the electronic pieces that contribute to healthcare services, including those crucial to surgery and other life-saving procedures, also jeopardize patients’ lives.

Internet-connected devices power our modern health systems – and they’re often the new vulnerable edge that needs to be secured. Healthcare organizations must increase their scrutiny of and security for all these assets, but to do so, IT and security teams must understand their attack surface first.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify cybersecurity use cases within the modern health system
• Understand how the cyber attack surface is expanding to include new internet-connected technologies, including OT and IoT
• Delineate steps in collecting asset information to convert it into asset intelligence
• Outline ways to automate collecting data from external sources to create threat intelligence
• Review best practices for automating security use cases