Hospitals struggle with visibility of connected medical devices

A new survey of CISOs at North American hospitals finds that 43 percent identified complete device visibility as the challenge they would most want to solve immediately, followed by ransomware threat detection (24 percent) and compliance automation (22 percent). The study from Asimily also uncovered fragmentation in how hospital security teams approach vulnerability remediation. Only 22 percent of hospital CISOs base their prioritization on device usage and criticality, which is the most effective method for focusing resources on the highest-risk assets. Meanwhile, 18 percent rely on manual review and 15 percent report having no clear process at all for addressing… [Continue Reading]