Healthcare IT Today September 29, 2025
The following is a guest article by Apu Pavithran, Founder and CEO at Hexnode
Cybersecurity and physical security are increasingly linked in modern healthcare. Bad actors know that mobile devices and medical endpoints can serve as entry points into an organization’s ecosystem and allow them to hold the entire network hostage.
We saw this last year when Change Healthcare fell victim to a ransomware attack, resulting in data theft and estimated losses of more than $800 million. Attackers succeeded through basic endpoint security failures – cracking a single password on a remote account without multi-factor authentication – which saw not only financial losses but also the cancellation of urgent surgeries and critical patient services.
In this climate of increasing ransomware...







