Healthcare – IoT Security Compliance

Challenge

For most healthcare organizations, demonstrating compliance with healthcare IoT cybersecurity standards and regulations is a manual, highly inefficient, and expensive process.

Healthcare is the third most targeted sector in the UK

Increase in healthcare cyberattacks in the UK in compared to prior year

Compliance failures pose financial and reputational risk

UK GDRP and DPA 2018 data breach fines can cost as much as £17.5 million or 4% annual global turnover

Ensuring compliance of healthcare devices is difficult

UK-based healthcare organizations that faced IoT-focused attacks in 2019

Solution

Cylera provides the healthcare IoT visibility, inventory, and threat management required to support UK GDRP, DPA, CAF, and NHS DSPT compliance and audit processes.

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Respond Quickly and Efficiently to Cyber Alerts

“We need to quickly acknowledge and respond to high severity cyber alerts. Information Technology (IT) and security teams always have large task lists and many other urgent needs demanding their attention, so a healthcare IoT security solution with a unified alert dashboard like this really helps IT have all the information they need in one view - a game-changing level of visibility and security.” 

Former Deputy CTO

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Streamline healthcare IoT device discovery, inventory, and threat response to meet NHS Data Protection Toolkit audit requirements.

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Healthcare IoT Inventory Visibility

Cylera discovers, categorises, and inventories your healthcare IoT devices to minimize security gaps, support NHS DSPT self-assessment, and expedite internal audit processes with accurate, up-to-date, and complete asset records.

NHS Alert Dashboard

Cylera provides a centralized NHS alert dashboard to manage, prioritise, and respond to all threats, from low to high severity, including alerts and guidance from NHS England's Data Security Centre (DSC). The system delivers comprehensive NHS alert management. It highlights equipment in the Trust affected by alerts, tracks the device and alert resolution workflow, and enables convenient evidence export to satisfy audit inquiries by providing compliance evidence for over 30 different items.

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a doctor in a lab wearing a face mask and gloves while looking at a tablet

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Attack Surface Management

Cylera delivers a complete account of specifications and usage for every connected healthcare IoT device, identifying security issues, prioritising actual threats, and guiding remedial actions to help reduce exposure on attack surface exposures and better manage risks related to data leakage under the Data Protection Act (DPA) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Efficient Audit Readiness

Cylera analytics take the work out of gathering compliance evidence. Cylera consolidates all inventory, vulnerability, threat, and resolution information and provides it in audit-ready form. Stakeholders across healthcare delivery organizations can utilize unified, consistent healthcare IoT device asset, security, and operational information.