Medical device security

See and secure your clinical networks and medical devices with a single cybersecurity platform.

The Forescout 4D PlatformTM continuously identifies, protects and ensures the compliance of all managed and unmanaged cyber assets – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT–    without business disruption.

Our solution quickly pinpoints, prioritizes and helps you proac-tively mitigate risks and respond to threats across your clinical and enterprise network.

Unique Value

• Discovers and classifies every device, IT, OT, IoT and IoMT upon connection, evaluates their security posture and helps you segment them appropriately.
• Continuously assesses risks and exposures, and recommends the most effective mitigation actions.
• Detects threats in real-time and provides all the context required for effective incident response.
• Enforces compliance and simplifies reporting through detailed, customizable dashboards and a comprehensive reporting framework.
• Automates workflows and tasks via integrations with 200+ security products for asset and compliance management, risk mitigation and incident response.
• Enables dynamic, context-aware network access control and segmentation to ensure critical assets and networks are always protected.

Solution Overview:

With so many connected devices and diverse motives driving bad actors, hospitals have become a cyber battleground. Medical devices introduce a wide range of operating systems and communication protocols and cannot tolerate endpoint agents. Therefore, traditional cybersecurity solutions cannot adequately protect these critical systems.

Forescout’s unique approach to medical device security delivers unparalleled insights and control for the entire network without disrupting critical business processes or impacting patient care. The Forescout 4D PlatformTM is an easy-to-deploy, integrated solution that provides unmatched visibility and protection for IT, medical and IoT devices, ensuring operational continuity along with patient and data safety.

Our solution provides agentless security that continuously identifies and assesses every device connected to a hospital’s network, prioritizes risk and exposure mitigation, ensures compliance, and detects threats. It automates policy-driven network access control, segmentation and threat response workflows based on real-time rich, contextual asset and threat intelligence. In addition, it enriches medical device profiles with information such as FDA class, medical recalls and device utilization to manage asset productivity and plan maintenance operations more effectively.

Key Benefits:

Intelligent Auto-Classification
The Forescout 4D PlatformTM combines diverse discovery techniques with cloud-powered intelligence to classify every device in your hospital network and provide an always up-to-date inventory of all connected assets.

Our patented deep packet inspection and selective active queries result in granular auto-classification including function, vendor, model, OS or firmware version and unique medical properties such as FDA class and MDS2 information.

Hospitals can now eliminate blind spots and minimize operational risk across their organization by having in-depth visibility into:

• Laptops, tablets, smartphones, BYOD/guest systems and work-from home devices.
• IoT and IT devices across campus, data center, cloud, branch, remote site and edge networks.
• Medical devices connected to clinical networks, including infusion pumps, patient monitors, imaging systems and more.

Risk Assessment and Prioritization
To safeguard the clinical network, you must first understand the attack surface, then quantify the exposure, vulnerabilities and configuration issues that could pose a risk to patient care and business operations or become the entry point for a cyber breach and finally take action to mitigate those risks.
The Forescout 4D PlatformTM enables effective prioritization of risk mitigation by identifying device exposure such as vulnerabilities, default credentials, insecure protocols, exposed ports and services and compliance violations, correlating vulnerability data with the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and EPSS scoring and weighing those factors by the business criticality of each asset to ensure the highest likelihood and impact risks are dealt with first. Essential elements such as device criticality, FDA class, and recall status are included in risk considerations to ensure that business and operational context are accounted for in prioritization of response.

Threat Detection
Forescout automates and accelerates the process of detecting, investigating, hunting for and responding to advanced threats across the entire network - from cloud, campus, remote and datacenter environments to IT, OT, IoT and IoMT devices.

Our Platform converts telemetry and logs from 200+ security products and log sources into high fidelity, SOC-actionable probable threats. The combination of essential SOC technologies and functions with rule-based and AI/ML techniques to detect, investigate, and respond to threats makes our Platform 450x more efficient than typical SOCs at converting telemetry and logs into actionable detections.

Mitigation and Response Actions
The Forescout 4D PlatformTM doesn’t just show where the problems are – it enables healthcare organizations to take actions to effectively mitigate risks and respond to threats. The Forescout 4D PlatformTM ensures that your medical devices are secure and enforces their compliance with internal or regulatory policies. It drives segmentation policy design and enforcement to protect critical devices and reduce the blast radius in the event of malware infection. It implements granular network access control policies and response actions such as firewall tagging, switch block, VLAN assignments, and more to ensure that only legitimate devices get access to the network, or that infected devices are promptly isolated.
Our combination of proactive controls and response capabilities ensure that hospital networks are protected before, during, and after a breach.
 

Medical Asset Lifecycle Management

Forescout’s analytics and medical device intelligence offer key insights into clinical networks and medical devices, including open medical recalls and device utilization metrics to track asset productivity, enable redistribution of purchasing decisions and plan patching effectively.
Our Platform simplifies the onboarding and management of medical assets, reducing the burden on networking teams without compromising the security of the clinical network. Medical engineers can input new assets into an existing CMDB; the Forescout 4D PlatformTM automatically synchronizes with the CMDB to ensure that only legitimate assets are authenticated on the network and are placed onto the proper network segment to align with zero-trust frameworks. Similarly, if the asset is reported as stolen or compromised on the CMDB, our Platform prevents it from further accessing the network.
Forescout continuously captures operational data from all connected medical and IoMT devices, and the solution’s real-time utilization dashboard allows you to monitor each device, identify performance anomalies, and plan the transfer of underutilized devices between hospital departments.

Compliance and Reporting

The Forescout 4D PlatformTM helps you achieve compliance alignment with common cybersecurity frameworks such as CIS, NIST, HIPAA, DSP Toolkit and others. We help automate security, governance, and risk management goals based on customer priorities, and gain insights into compliance status based on core and extended policies, enabling organizations to identify gaps, improve compliance coverage, and understand the impact of Forescout’s remediation efforts on maintaining asset security.
Our Platform also provides AI-generated narrative reports that offer easy to understand insights into risk and compliance posture. Our reports help measure the effectiveness of risk mitigation and response actions across your security ecosystem to reduce exposure, tracking progress over time and enabling more effective communication between operational and executive stakeholders.

Increased Operational Efficiency

The Forescout 4D PlatformTM allows healthcare organizations to automate workflows and tasks, effectively reducing manual efforts and freeing up time and resources for security teams. With over 180 integrations with third-party security tools, including CMDBs, vulnerability assessment tools, EDRs, next-generation firewalls, and SIEMs, our Platform can orchestrate information exchange, risk mitigation and incident response actions via flexible policies in a fully automated way.
Security teams can reduce operational overhead for asset management and incident response by leveraging real-time contextual device data, accelerating incident investigation and root cause analysis. Our rich intelligence on high-risk assets and exposure gaps enables analysts to formulate and then automate remediation actions appropriate to the assets in scope, ensuring the highest level of security without disrupting patient operations.
 

Forescout Medical Device Security Architecture

Empower your Healthcare Organization with Unmatched Cybersecurity Capabilities

Are any of these values relevant for you?

• Real-Time Asset Discovery & Visibility
•  Zero Trust Assurance & Network Access Control
•  Continuous Compliance Enforcement
•  Security Automation & Orchestration
•  Risk & Exposure Management
•  Threat Detection & Response
•  Dynamic Network Segmentation & Containment
•  Medical Device Lifecycle Management
•  Executive Reporting

In that case, I’m confident it would be worthwhile to have a chat about the possibilities Forescout could offer. We can also carry out a free Asset Visibility Health Check for you. After all, your security can only benefit from it.

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