The exponential growth of IoT and medical devices across the healthcare sector has increased the attack surface of these organizations. Ransomware attacks continue to grow in volume and scale, with increased impact to connected medical devices, patient care/safety, and exposure to large global integrated health delivery systems. Patients have recognized significant care impacts such as rescheduled surgeries, increased wait times, delayed test results and challenges filling prescription medications.
Threats to medical devices aren’t theoretical; these are happening with astonishing regularity, whether it’s large diagnosis machines, treatment systems or any number of devices used for patient monitoring and management.
