Blumira Healthcare Cybersecurity

Legacy infrastructure

Due to growth through mergers and acquisitions, many healthcare organizations struggle with an influx of devices that are out of date or don’t work with their infrastructure. This makes it difficult to maintain uniformity in the environment and deploy an additional agent to detect and prevent cyber attacks.

Resource-draining SOCs

Many institutions use traditional Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) products that only detect cyber attacks, meaning incoming events need to be addressed in real-time before any data is lost. This often requires the build-out of a 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC) with a team of IT security analysts to sift through alerts, determine their severity, take action on the most important ones, and perform ongoing maintenance–skills and resources that not all healthcare IT teams have available to them.

Common security issues seen in healthcare attacks

Blumira data shows that healthcare organizations are especially vulnerable to these types of attacks:

• Password spraying – A type of brute-force attack that’s used by attackers to gain initial access into a local hospital’s system.
• RDP connections – Remote Desktop Protocol is often misconfigured to allow public IP access from the internet, which can result in ransomware. Blumira notifies users of any external attempts to connect via RDP to your network to protect against attacker exploitation.
• Lateral movement – Attackers will target hospital network devices for unauthorized access to enable them to move laterally through your environment. Blumira honeypots give you an easy, one-click way to detect and respond to these attempts.