The recent Webinar Wednesday presentation “Navigating the World of IoMT Cybersecurity” presented by Alex Masten was eligible for 1 credit from the ACI. The session was sponsored by Cynerio.
In the 60-minute webinar, cybersecurity and IoT risk management expert Alex Masten, senior director at Cynerio, discussed how HTM professionals can secure medical and IoT devices to reduce organizational risk relative to patient safety, data confidentiality and device availability. He reviewed healthcare IoT cybersecurity trends and IoT security challenges. Masten also shared what other health care organizations are doing to solve these challenges and some best practices for solving healthcare IoT security challenges.
Masten shared additional insights during a question-and-answer session immediately following his presentation. One question was, “How are the MDS2 forms used exactly?”
“There’s a few different ways that the MDS2 forms can be used. For the most part, it’s kind of checking the box of understanding the security capabilities of the devices that are coming onto your network,” Masten explained. “But that information is similar to what you may see in a vendor security questionnaire that goes out to a services provider vendor, or a vendor who’s going to be doing some kind of a SaaS tool for your organization.”
“The MDS2 form is kind of that level of assurance that helps you understand the security capabilities,” he added. “So organizations will collect those as a part of their procurement and their IT security, due diligence process for bringing on new devices. Now, a lot of the information in there is really just used, again, to understand the security capabilities. But there are some good nuggets of information.”
He said one example of how to use the forms is that some devices will allow you to install your own antivirus software.
The question-and-answer session included more great information and is included in the webinar recording that is available for on-demand viewing at WebinarWednesday.live.
Attendees provided positive feedback regarding the webinar via a survey.
The survey included the question, “How well did the content that was delivered match what you were promised when you registered?”
“Provided lots of great materials,” said. J. Jones, operations manager.
“Yes, the presentation was very informative. Cyberthreats are becoming a serious issue in the health care industry. I appreciate what you do to find weaknesses and solutions to prevent them,” said B. Hayes, CBET.
“Very well and was very helpful for my evaluation of our plan,” Clinical Engineering Manager M. Woods said.
“Interesting topic for cybersecurity – especially segmentation factors,” said R. Maddox, manager.
For more information, visit WebinarWednesday.live.