HealthTech January 4, 2023
Bolstering basic security can help protect legacy systems as healthcare organizations make strides to modernize infrastructure.
Legacy operating systems and software applications are pervasive in healthcare, and they pose a serious security threat.
A 2021 report from Kaspersky Lab found that 73 percent of health systems used medical equipment running legacy operating systems. Not coincidentally, only 34 percent of organizations said they had up-to-date and adequate hardware and software security protections.
In some cases, the legacy OS is a sunsetted version of Microsoft Windows. According to the 2021 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey Report, more than one-third of health systems still have devices running Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, both of which haven’t been supported by Microsoft since January 2020....
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