CyberMDX, a leading healthcare cybersecurity provider delivering visibility and threat prevention for medical devices and clinical networks, today announced that the company has published its 2022 predictions for the threats that face healthcare delivery organizations, medical devices and hospital networks in the upcoming year.
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“It’s been a long couple of years for the healthcare industry. In the age of connectivity, the once unthreatened industry has become among the most vulnerable and targeted by hackers,” said Azi Cohen, CEO of CyberMDX. “Covid forced the accelerated integration of many connected systems. While necessary, the decisions to keep up with the demand for services often overlooked or did not address cybersecurity concerns. Over the next 12 months we can expect to see the continued fallout from those hard decisions, but also hopefully a new respect and acknowledgement for the value that security brings to the healthcare industry.”
2022 Healthcare IoT Security Predictions:
Pandemic Experience Will Shift Attacker Strategy- Cyber-attacks on healthcare providers will become more targeted and sophisticated. Bad actors will use what they’ve learned during the pandemic attack surge to shift from a “spray and pray” model to a “bait and prey” strategy where there is more up-front profiling and analysis of a hospital’s weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and potential payouts.
Hospital Boards Will Demand Security – With the record number of attacks over the past two years still trending up, hospital boards will push CEOs, CIOs and CISOs to reduce risk. Boards will focus on closing the largest and most likely threat vectors to reduce the likelihood of successful attacks, but will also demand new protocols be put in place to cut recovery times from weeks and months down to days or even hours to limit the losses from network and device downtime.