Health IT Security May 6, 2021
Jessica Davis

Forescout’s ongoing TCP/IP vulnerability research shows that IoT and medical devices in healthcare face the greatest risk of exposure and attack.

At least 75 percent of healthcare entities are impacted by a host of TCP/IP vulnerabilities, uncovered by Forescout Research Labs within the last year. NUMBER:JACK, NAME:WRECK, and AMNESIA:33 are found in millions of healthcare IoT and other IT devices, posing a serious risk of remote code excution and hacking.

In fact, healthcare organizations are nearly five times more affected by TCP/IP vulnerabilities than any other sector with a total of 79 vulnerable types of devices and 259 vulnerable vendors.

Forescout’s Project Memoria is focused on assessing security vulnerabilities and associated threats against IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT devices, along...

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