Cybersecurity is a complex operational challenge

Connected medical devices and other mobile health technologies have the potential to play a transformational role in healthcare, but they may also expose organisations
to security risks.

 

In today’s increasingly connected healthcare landscape, hundreds of thousands of life-sustaining or life-supporting medical devices currently reside on hospital networks across the world, with more accessible via wireless technologies, meaning the need for cybersecurity has never been higher.

Operational challenge

Read more about how effective medical device
cybersecurity offers end to end security, helping make medical devices and services more robust against cyber attacks.

Facts and figures

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2,000%  year-over-year surge of attack


Threat actors continue to shift their sights to attack vectors including IoT, Operational technology (OT) and connected industrial and medical systems.

8.5 billion records breached in 2019


Attackers had access to more stolen credentials. Securing credentials and access controls is more important than ever.

8.5 billion records breached
Vulnerabilities

150,000 vulnerabilities disclosed to date


Patching vulnerabilities is still a problem for many organizations and cybercriminals know that.

Operational Intelligence for medical device cybersecurity

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Philips medical grade cybersecurity solutions encompass the provision of on-site Biomedical Engineers. The combination of Philips security processes and on-site support ensure cybersecurity is in place, effectively integrating people, processes and technology.

“ Data is the new currency, and hacking is a business model. The financial gains of hacking will soon surpass those of the worldwide drugs trade.”

Stef Hoffman

Chief Information Security Officer, Philips

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Medical device cybersecurity

Discover why and how Operational Intelligence is transforming the success of medical device cybersecurity initiatives and how your healthcare system can benefit.

Enterprise-wide  cybersecurity 


In this short feature, we explore the must-knows and must-deploys for managing healthcare cybersecurity as a COO or C-suite leader, pose the key questions all COOs need to be asking themselves and outline top tips for preventing a healthcare data breaches and cybersecurity threats.

Critical data, end to end security


Within the transforming healthcare system, there is a highly specific area of cybersecurity that goes beyond the arena of IT. Read about this rapidly evolving, highly regulated and vital niche and why it’s key to operational effectiveness.

Healthcare and medical device cybersecurity


Discover why essential and effective medical device cybersecurity requires collaboration between stakeholders, hospitals manufacturers, regulatory agencies and researchers. 

Your medical device cybersecurity strategy


Read how to safeguard medical devices and take steps towards creating an enterprise-wide resilience strategy.

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Co-creating in-depth defence across all domains

 

Overview of the Philips cybersecurity suite of services

*The following Cybersecurity services will only be available for delivery in North America in 2021 for selected Philips modalities.

Protection services

Philips Cybersecurity protection and upgrading services


Philips Protection services help customers keep their systems secure through coordinated vulnerability disclosures, medically validated patching, network segmentation.

Respond services

Philips Cybersecurity detection and recovery services


Philips detection, respond and recover services help customers to identify their medical assets, and monitor the security posture of their medical systems 24x7 and, where needed, trigger response & recovery workflows, as well as helping with recovery from cybersecurity events.

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