The Webinar Wednesday presentation “Every Byte Counts – Why Device Detail is the Foundation for Effective Network Security” was eligible for 1 credit from the ACI. Medigate by Claroty sponsored the free webinar.
HTM professionals are tasked with determining the best controls to secure networked connected medical devices. In this webinar, Medigate Solutions Engineer Greg Thomas and Cisco Healthcare Business Solutions Architect Johnathan “Ross” Sweetzir discussed the risks posed from the explosion in connectivity between the cyber and physical worlds.
The best practices in asset management and security are converging around a healthcare-specialized approach to Zero Trust or Least Privilege. In other words, “limit each device’s communication to that which is required to complete its designated function.”
In this webinar, the presenters explained this complex topic into basic, understandable components. They shared the challenges, requirements and solutions essential for HTM professionals to successfully implement this crucial control.
Attendees were also able to ask specific questions during a question-and-answer session. One question was, “How can this joint solution help reduce the cost of managing our medical devices?”
Sweetzir said, “So how did we help you reduce the cost of managing your medical devices, first and foremost? When you’re making purchasing decisions and you’re trying to determine, ‘How many new devices do I need to purchase?’ If you don’t have an accurate inventory of those devices, you really can’t make a decision on how many new devices do I need. So, we track all those devices, we discover them. We tell you exactly where they’re located. We also can see the traffic from those devices in the workload, so we can give you utilization metrics to tell you how often that device is being used. When it’s being used. How it’s being used. We can also tell you, for example, for radiology devices, how many scans of a particular type that device has performed. So, you can use that information to make decisions on how many new devices do I need to purchase. Do I even need to purchase new devices? Do I need to move the devices around to different facilities? Maybe I have a device, and Facility A, that is used 90% of the time, but I’ve got some devices at Facility B that are barely ever on the network.”
Thomas added to the answer. The complete webinar with all of the question-and-answer session is available for on-demand viewing at WebinarWednesday.live.
Attendees provided feedback via a survey that included the question, “Why did you attend today’s webinar?”
“CEUs and to keep up with the constantly changing medical field,” said Lorie Johnson, certified biomed technician at a Stanford Children’s Hospital
“Continuously learning more about cybersecurity,” Hoag Hospital Newport Beach Biomedical Engineering Manager Joseph Trujillo said.
“To work with IT on medical equipment cybersecurity,” Nebraska Methodist Hospital Biomed Risk Compliance Manager Paul Collett said.
For more information about the free HTM webinar series, visit WebinarWednesday.live.
