Life Sciences Intelligence August 3, 2022
Jill McKeon

Organizations are struggling to define security roles and responsibilities, even as IoT and medical device security concerns continue to grow, Cynerio and the Ponemon Institute found.

Nearly 80 percent of 517 survey respondents did not consider their organization’s IoT and IoMT cybersecurity activities to be mature, research conducted by Cynerio and the Ponemon Institute revealed.

Despite the lack of mature security controls, nearly half of surveyed respondents said that their organization had experienced attacks on medical devices that led to patient data being stolen, and 56 percent said that the attacks led to an inability to provide patient care. Additionally, 26 percent of respondents said that the attacks led to patients being inappropriately tested.

What’s more, 53 percent of...

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Topics: Cybersecurity, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Medical Devices, Provider, Survey / Study, Technology, Trends
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