Forescout and First Health Advisory establish healthcare cybersecurity partnership
San Jose, United States – Forescout Technologies, the global provider in automated cybersecurity, announced a new healthcare cybersecurity partnership with First Health Advisory, a provider in healthcare IT risk management. The partnership creates an innovative approach to connected asset risk management by automating the technical data collection, mitigation and risk reduction measures for a healthcare organisation’s entire network that encompasses IT, IoT, OT, and IoMT assets.
Healthcare organisations’ networks are under constant attack and often do not have the necessary human capital to oversee the work necessary to thwart a potential threat or attack through quick response. This challenge places added importance on the need to obtain highly skilled outside expertise to operationalise a program and execute ongoing asset risk assessments across the network.
“Cybersecurity risk assessments for healthcare organisations are incredibly time consuming, static in nature, and mandated by regulatory requirements. Moreover, the steps to mitigate assessment findings and lower risk are difficult to complete with the current cyber skills shortage,” says Tamer Baker, vice president, global healthcare, Forescout. “This partnership and new approach that combines intuitive risk assessment and automated mitigation technology will allow healthcare organisations to not only make risk assessments easier and faster to complete, but also free up internal resources to support other critical aspects of the patient experience.”
The audit experience will also see a major transformation through this new partnership. Organisations will have an ability to automate evidence collection and receive ongoing mitigation and vulnerability management support from First Health Advisory staff year-round.
“Our partnership delivers the optimal solution healthcare organisations are looking for – the right balance of highly skilled, multi-disciplinary risk assessment personnel with deep understanding of the regulatory landscape together with a dependable cybersecurity platform that can automate risk reduction actions,” says Will Long, CSO of enterprise security & technology at First Health Advisory. “We’re excited about this collaboration and together with Forescout, look forward to helping more healthcare organisations improve their security posture.”
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