Connected devices are increasing your attack surface—and organizational risks.
To deliver advanced, quality patient care, healthcare organizations are adopting massive numbers of connected medical devices. But unlike conventional IT assets, such as laptops and desktop computers, most of these new devices are unmanaged and unagentable, which means your traditional security solutions can’t see or secure them. And when those assets go unchecked, your patients’ safety and privacy is at risk. And recent research shows that the potential exposure points to data breaches and disruptive ransomware attacks are everywhere.
- 58% of IT professionals in healthcare report ransomware attacks
- 61% of consumers are unaware of increasing cyberattacks in healthcare
- Nearly half—49%—of potential patients reported that they would change hospitals if their healthcare organization was hit by a ransomware attack
Premier Irish Healthcare Provider Closes Security Gaps with Armis
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital (Mater Hospital) in Dublin, Ireland is a level four acute care teaching hospital and is part of the Ireland East Hospital Group. While investigating where the gaps existed on its network, it became clear to Mater Hospital to add Armis to its best of breed solutions in order to keep its environment safe.
Introducing the Armis Platform for Healthcare.
Discover and secure every clinical asset and track inventory utilization.
The Armis Platform for Healthcare is the industry’s most comprehensive asset intelligence platform. Get complete visibility and maximize security across all managed or unmanaged medical devices, clinical assets, and the entire healthcare device ecosystem—with zero disruption to patient care.
Accurate discovery, complete asset visibility
Discover and locate up to 5x more assets than your existing tools find—including every connected clinical asset—and create real time, complete inventories without manual intervention by biomedical and IT teams.
Deep context, clinical intelligence
Rely on one unified platform for comprehensive, context-enriched views of every device, including adaptive risk assessments based on insights from the groundbreaking Armis Asset Intelligence Engine. Automatically assess device MDS2 properties and FDA compliance.
Continuous security, optimized utilization
Manage risk and actively, continuously secure every clinical asset to protect patient safety and ensure data privacy. The Armis Asset Intelligence Platform provides orchestrated, near-real-time cyber threat response while monitoring clinical asset utilization to improve organizational productivity and resiliency.
Armis Shines Light on Burke Rehabilitation Hospital’s Network
Burke Rehabilitation Hospital
Burke Rehabilitation Hospital was struggling with visibility into devices connected to its environment. With Armis integrated into several of its platforms, it has provided visibility across Burke’s entire network.
“We are looking at Armis as a new way to gain insights into our network. It only takes a little bit of effort on our part to get an enormous amount of information. Prior to Armis, the amount of work it would take to collect that data would be beyond our capabilities.”
Brian Schultz
Director of Network Operations and Security
Burke Rehab Hospital
Put Armis to work for your healthcare organization.
Streamline device fleet management
Clinical
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND TRACKING
Discover all medical devices to effectively create and manage an accurate inventory. Understand utilization metrics from a clinical perspective and easily conduct security and risk assessments.
- Automatically create medical device inventory without the need for manual intervention by biomedical or IT teams.
- Rely on real-time updating of asset inventory for up-to-date views into the medical device fleet.
- Schedule reports to identify medical devices that have been offline for extended periods of time.
- Help clinical teams locate medical devices between and within sites.
- Inventory device properties, including serial numbers, AE titles, recalls, locations, users, and more, for clinical teams.
Improve patient care
Clinical
PATIENT SAFETY AND CARE QUALITY RISK MANAGEMENT
Understand vulnerabilities on medical devices that can impact patient safety or care. Armis analyzes medical devices for safety recall information and provides contextualized risk analysis of devices based on usage, behaviors, and device properties.
- Maintain patient safety by enabling teams to quickly assess recall status of medical devices
- Use automated workflows to keep teams informed of devices with new recalls
- Analyze and prioritize risk by hospital site and device type to aid in strategic response to recall compliance
- Complete multi-dimensional risk analysis of medical devices, including vulnerability management, cyber-attack monitoring, and clinical risk assessment
Security
PROTECTING PATIENT PRIVACY
Data exfiltration and compromises to networks that result in compromised patient privacy are on the rise. Armis helps hospital security and privacy teams identify gaps that can result in patient privacy breaches.
- Enhance monitoring and visibility of devices that store, process, or transmit PHI.
- Identify devices that are transmitting unencrypted patient data, including exfiltration to unsanctioned destinations.
- Detect the presence of unauthorized devices that can lead to privacy breaches (for example, the presence of Amazon Echo devices and other virtual assistants in clinical units).
- Reduce privacy breaches that can result in financial penalties or reputational damage.
Reduce operating costs
Clinical
DEVICE UTILIZATION INSIGHTS
Armis provides clinical teams insights into medical device utilization metrics so they can understand when and how devices are being used. Clinical team management can rely on up-to-date asset usage data to make informed purchase decisions.
- Automatically detect and categorize clinical activity for individual medical devices, such as medical scans conducted by MRI machines, head scanners, or CT scanners, or drug delivery by infusion pumps.
- Identify under and over utilization of assets to help clinical teams maximize device efficiency.
- Determine optimal times for maintenance scheduling and downtime windows to minimize patient care disruptions.
- Inform capital purchasing decisions and decrease overspending on unnecessary device purchases.
- Increase monitoring of your most critical revenue-generating devices.
- Identify potential misuse of devices based on trending and activity information.
Our customers say it all.
“We had limited visibility, context to medical devices which was a data loss concern. Armis initially identified 750K medical and IT devices in < 3 weeks and detected 4 security incidents that required response. We were deployed in < 4 months in the midst of Covid outbreak when demand was high.”
—leading US healthcare organization
Resources
Medical and IoT Device Security for Healthcare
Managing Risk and Ensuring PatientSafety with 21st Century Healthcare
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5 Critical considerations for your medical device security strategy
We’ve seen an exponential increase in medical devices connected to the internet leading to malicious actors exploiting vulnerabilities in medical devices.