Healthcare Radius – December 2018

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ensure secure coding, high availability, and
secure data storage and transfer practices.
Coupled with the fact that the majority
of those solutions are now in the cloud, or
are in hybrid environments, many continue
to be concerned about the management
of security of the public or private cloud
repositories that store these applications in
addition to the SaaS applications them-
selves. Poor management of authentication

certificates or poor application of encryp-
tion can also lead to significant security
vulnerabilities.

Siloes present significant risk
Healthcare networks are transitioning
from physical siloes toward SaaS and cloud-
based products, this new generation of
siloes present significant risk within health-
care. During a security event, the ability to
remediate effectively is severely impacted
by the distribution and differentiating logs
of having multiple security tools, or 'point
products.
In the throes of an active security event,
the proposition is either to pay a substan-
tial amount for many consultants to help
with forensics, or scramble to extract logs
from all of these various tools and attempt
to perform a manual correlation of events


  • reconciling time stamps, gather endpoint
    data, inspect authentication activity and at-
    tempt to follow the incident through their
    environment. It is critical as part of the



  1. Healthcare
    networks are
    transitioning
    from physical
    siloes toward SaaS
    and cloud-based
    products.

  2. From a value
    standpoint,
    paediatric records
    typically have a
    higher value.


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