SOLUTION BRIEF

Ivanti Neurons for Healthcare:
Improve asset visibility and security risk mitigation for medical devices

Millions of healthcare IT and medical IoT devices■ 50% of hospitals don’t conform to NIST guidelines.

are used to care for patients and streamline■ 65% of hospitals have low confidence inclinical workflows in healthcare organizations,but their inherent vulnerabilities to malware andcyber-attacks place hospitals and patients atrisk. Connected medical devices represent ahuge challenge for healthcare IT, biomedical andsecurity organizations. They can’t be disconnectedasset visibility.
■ 40% of all connected medical devices run

an unsupported OS.
■ 300% rise in healthcare cyber-attacks since

the beginning of 2020.

because of their critical roles in patient care and IT

Ivanti Neurons for Healthcare improves asset visibility

network infrastructures, and standard IT solutions

and security risk mitigation for medical devices. The

can’t secure them. This leaves hospitals exposedsolution discovers and intelligently profiles medical

and jeopardizes patient safety, data confidentiality,

devices and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT),and service availability.

assessing security risks, reporting threats, andreconciling device information across multiple data
sources. Know more about the various healthcare-ivanti.com

Identify medical devices, IoT,and OT systems

specific devices across your facilities, including device

The challenge of connected medical devices is notclassification and usage information, with the details

well understood by IT, biomedical, and security teams

to reduce security risk or to attend to anomalies.

at hospitals and healthcare organizations due toCollect and reconcile vendor data, creating a single

extremely limited visibility. It’s critical to understandsource of truth for all your medical devices.

the complete environment. Active network scanningcan disrupt medical device operation, so you must
use passive discovery. Traditional tools won’t discover
the vast majority of connected medical devices, or
may indicate falsely that the device is a Windowsworkstation. Most connected medical devices do not
advertise their information, and detecting them overthe network requires careful analysis of traffic at theapplication layer. With Ivanti Neurons for Healthcare
you can easily discover which IT and medical devices
exist, classify them accurately, understand theirclinical context, and identify their networking needs
to understand how exposed they are to external andinternal threats.

Assess and prioritize risk
Once you have a better understanding of yourconnected medical devices — and have built an
inventory of the devices, their context and network

Secure faster and cover
all threat vectors
Ivanti Neurons for Healthcare identifies device
vulnerabilities and network-related risks; assigns eachdevice a risk index for patient safety, privacy, andservice disruption; and provides recommendations
for remediation. Your organization can define an
acceptable level of risk, and the security team canfocus on protecting devices with risk scores beyondon the organization. With cross-organizational anddevice-level risk assessment, anomaly detection,
real-time alerts and clinical insights, Ivanti Neurons
for Healthcare prioritizes action plans based on risk
impact and criticality. The advantage of a structured
process for discovery and risk assessment is thatyou can rank devices according to the risks they
represent.

tailored to healthcare facilities’ unique workflows
and architectures. Healthcare organizations canleverage clinically contextualized, real-time insights
to identify and manage security risks, optimize device
performance, and achieve the quick and lasting
wins needed to ensure patient safety and smooth
operations.

the acceptable level and apply the appropriate

Key capabilities

security measures to devices with different risk

Automated discovery and asset managementscores. From vendor access to cloud access,forensics, and virtual segmentation, Ivanti Neurons
for Healthcare automates risk reduction by offering
the optimal remediation path. Starting from the mostcritical risks that have the highest impact on yourorganization, you can arrive at a quick and sustainablesecurity posture.

behavior — you can use this inventory to assess thesecurity risks affecting each device and their impact

capacity dashboards, and risk assessments

Reduce risks, prevent threats,
and improve compliance
Ivanti Neurons for Healthcare gives biomedical
and clinical engineers the insights and solutions
they need to take total control of their assets

Real-time medical device discovery finds, inventories,and classifies every device, tracks locations, andprovides:■ Comprehensive data on device type, vendor, OS,department, serial number and more.
■ Data on devices that receive and send ePHI, plus

ongoing risk assessments, recall tracking andalerts.
■ Seamless integration with Ivanti AssetManagement and other third-party asset
management solutions to manage medical assets
efficiently and optimize their performance.

and sync with their IT Security counterparts withautomated discovery, inventory, ePHI and location
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Resource planning andemergency preparedness

Procurement and lifecycle management

Vendor access management

Access to digitized, searchable MDS2 library, plus

Control over vendor and third-party access to devices

Operational insights and ongoing visibility into device

in-house threat intelligence combined with the poweron the hospital’s IT networks ensures:

utilization patterns help you make quick, informedof AI promotes cross-team alignment with IT Security

decisions with:and cost-savings on device procurement with:■ Drilldowns into usage, medical impact and■ Visibility into which vendors are connecting,when, and why.

■ Easy access to MDS2 forms, including for devices

criticality for individual devices and for device■ Vendors and other third parties only connect tonot yet in your inventory to ensure devices adhere

types by ward and site.

devices for necessary maintenance and support

to organizational security policies pre-purchase.

services.

■ Alerts on device capacity and real-time location(by ward, department, off-site locations).
■ Insights on when devices can be scheduled for

downtime and maintenance without disrupting
clinical services.
■ Troubleshooting to understand what went wrong

and how to fix it.

ePHI tracking and device recall alerts
Continuous tracking of devices with ePHI and device
recall alerts enables seamless alignment between
biomedical and clinical engineering teams with their IT
Security counterparts to:■ Pinpoint devices that might be vulnerable tocyberattacks.

■ The ability to easily apply MDS2 data to device-■ Compliance with passive scanning of regulatorylevel security policies to ensure necessary

rules and real-time alerts on changes andmaintenance and support services and optimalviolations.

(and prolonged) device functionality.
■ Vulnerability identification that saves teams thetime they’d take to communicate directly withdevice vendors.
■ Real-time data extracted from external sources

to ensure device functionality, security andcompliance with information from the FDA, JCAHOand HIPAA.
■ Device-performance benchmarking that enables

teams to build patching and maintenanceprograms to ensure continued clinical workflow

Modular, role-based dashboards
Configurable and modular dashboards display
varieties of data to give teams the perspective theyneed with the right information at the right time:■ Inventory and insights on device operations,vulnerabilities and recalls.
■ Deep drilldowns into communications

involving ePHI.
■ Multi-site views for network hospitals.

and medical services.

■ Immediately identify devices with compromisedfunctionality or security and receive step-by-step
mitigation plans.
■ Ensure compliance with ePHI communications

tracking and device-level security.

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About Ivanti
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