Forescout and First Health Advisory partner to help organizations mitigate IT, IoT, OT, and IoMT risks

Forescout Technologies and First Health Advisory partnership creates an approach to connected asset risk management by automating the technical data collection, mitigation and risk reduction measures for a healthcare organization’s entire network that encompasses IT, IoT, OT, and IoMT assets.

Healthcare organizations’ 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 skilled outside expertise to operationalize a program and execute ongoing asset risk assessments across the network.

“Cybersecurity risk assessments for healthcare organizations 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,” said Tamer Baker, vice president, global healthcare, Forescout.

“This partnership and new approach that combines intuitive risk assessment and automated mitigation technology will allow healthcare organizations 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.”, Baker continued.

The audit experience will also see a major transformation through this new partnership. Organizations 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 organizations 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,” said 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 organizations improve their security posture.”, Long continued.