Our BioTech Network Security Should Scare the Crap Out of You — Nick Rust on Technology

Hello Tech Pros - Motivation, Soft Skills & Business Advice

Nick Rust has spent the majority of his professional career working in Healthcare IT (10 years), with a particular emphasis in Health Care and Medical Device information security.

Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/nick-rust-technology/

Key Takeaways

• It's common that most people don't have experience in healthcare IT.
• When medical devices first came out, it was an instrument, not a piece of information technology.
• Radiology has more tech and devices than most other departments.
• Biotech been around for decades, IT came in 1980s.
• New biotech are computers integrated into the instruments.
  • The facilities and instruments are not good at network segmentation.
• FDA recently said that the industry is far below standard.
• The most basic security features are missing in many biotech areas.
  • No network whitelisting.
  • Running Windows XP.
• Gaining network access to medical devices is an excellent way of escalating level of access across the network.
• If you can gain control of one hospital in a network of 75 means you have a greater chance of gaining access to the other 74.
• If you change how you practice medicine every 18 months, people are going to die. The practice can't keep up with the development of enterprise and personal computing advancements.
• Data security is the best growth area in healthcare IT.