Health Populi August 12, 2021
As connected devices proliferate within health care enterprises and across the health care ecosystem, cybersecurity risks abound.
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr.
For this annual report, Ordr analyzed security risks across over 500 deployments in healthcare, life sciences, retail, and manufacturing sectors for the 12 months June 2020 through June 2021.
In health care, outdated operating systems present some of the greatest risks: 15% of medical devices and 32% of medical imaging tools run on outdated operating systems. “This is because many medical...