Do you think that your health data secure?
Most of the people don't really think about this question. But imagine, what would you do if your health data ended up on the internet one day? Once it's exposed, you can't undo it. That's scary and disturbing, isn't it?
Anyone who worked with medical systems knows that it is quite difficult to patch the vulnerabilities on these systems. Main reasons are: 1) Many of the systems run on outdated software that no longer supports new patches. 2) Updates are too risky because they can interrupt care or cause devices to fail during use. So, many of these devices stay unpatched and highly vulnerable to cyber attacks.
Researchers from Claroty's Team82 analyzed over 2.25 million Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices and more than 647,000 operational technology (OT) devices across 351 healthcare organizations. They found that 99% of these organizations had vulnerabilities with publicly available exploits, as listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. (Yes, 99%. We can say (almost) "all of them")
You can find the report in the following link:
Headlines:
"...the firm was able to analyze the security state of more than 2.25 million IoMT devices and more than 647,000 OT devices across 351 healthcare organizations – and found that 99% of the organizations are vulnerable to publicly available exploits..."