IoT risk assessment means all hands on deck

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By Benjamin Harris
Healthcare IT News
May 30, 2019

When it comes to information security, healthcare faces some foundational 
challenges that other industries don't. Not least the fact that it is "not a 
digital-native industry," said Stacie Hoffmann, digital policy and 
cybersecurity consultant at Oxford Information Labs.

It's not only that huge swathes of healthcare were primarily paper-based less 
than 10 years ago. Over the past decade as hospitals have adopted electronic 
health records and other IT, many are now also managing an ever-expanding 
universe of vulnerable connected devices.

And it's not just medical vices that could leave a network open to 
exploitation, said Hoffmann, one of the lead authors of a new whitepaper about 
architecture security from the IoT Security Foundation.

"HVAC systems or coffee systems, even those can have IoT capabilities," she 
said.

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