As the healthcare industry becomes more digitally enabled, this digitalisation simultaneously exposes organisations to harmful cybersecurity risks. The healthcare industry is a relatively attractive industry for cybercriminals to target due to its critical nature as well as the high value of information held by healthcare organisations. Therefore, centralised control of all connected devices is key to successful data breach prevention.
Forescout has released The Enterprise of Things Security Report, which uncovered the 10 riskiest Internet of Things (IoT) devices in health care in 2020. This study by Forescout Research Labs is the most comprehensive study of its kind within the greater cybersecurity industry to date. It assessed the risk posture of more than eight million devices deployed across five vertical industries including health care.
Forescout measured the risk of a device to an organisation by aggregating vulnerabilities, exploitability, remediation effort, matching confidence, open ports, potential communications, business criticality and whether the device is managed.
Accordingly, the top 10 riskiest IoT device attack vectors in healthcare are:
- Pneumatic…
