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A CISO's advice for securing connected medical devices

Healthcare IT News: Phishing emails aimed to compromise employee credentials. Encryption used to prevent exposure of sensitive data in the event of accidental loss or theft. Ransomware, rendering hospital computers useless and access to digital medical records unavailable. These are just a few of the things health systems are battling today in an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape. More often than not, it’s patient records and sensitive data that sits at the root of all privacy and security controls being implemented. But there’s an increasing concern over network connected medical devices that is threatening one of the core missions of every health system – patient safety.

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