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Clinic labs vulnerable via IT weaknesses

CISA's KEV catalog tracks vulnerabilities exploited in publicly known attacks. Our research found that 63% of the KEVs tracked by CISA are found in healthcare networks, and 23% of medical devices (imaging systems, clinical IoT devices, surgical devices) have at least one KEV.

A recent report shows that older medical devices running on unsupported and/or unmanaged operating systems are widespread in hospital networks.

These systems are considered outdated by their respective vendors and are no longer receiving security or feature updates. Below are some data points on legacy systems from our research.


https://claroty.com/resources/reports/state-of-cps-security-report-healthcare-2023


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The Editors in Chief of labnews.ai are Marita Vollborn and Vlad Georgescu. They have been bestselling authors, science writers, and science journalists since 1994.More details about their writing at X-Press Journalistenbüro (https://xpress-journalisten.com).More Info on Wikipedia:About Marita: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita_Vollborn About Vlad: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_Georgescu