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Cybersecurity for Healthcare
Healthcare organisations run a mix of legacy systems, connected medical devices, and strict data-protection obligations, a combination that makes segmentation and access control disproportionately important relative to a generic security checklist.
Where risk concentrates
Ransomware against clinical systems, with direct patient-safety consequences
Legacy systems and medical devices that can't be patched the way standard IT can
Unauthorised access to patient records, whether external or insider
Third-party and supplier risk from connected medical device vendors
Attack surface
A mix of modern IT infrastructure, legacy clinical systems that often can't be updated on a normal patch cycle, and an expanding footprint of connected medical devices, each with a different risk profile and remediation path.
Regulatory considerations
GDPR applies with particular weight given the sensitivity of health data, alongside sector-specific requirements depending on jurisdiction and care setting. NIS2 increasingly captures healthcare providers directly.
Business impact
Beyond data exposure, a security incident in healthcare can directly disrupt patient care, which changes both the urgency of prevention and the stakes of incident response planning.