Medical devices and hospital networks are vulnerable to hackers. And, according to 30% of hospital IT and security professionals, identifying and mitigating risks in medical devices is a major problem. And for those who can identify risks, roughly one third of device makers and HDOs are aware of potential adverse effects to patients due to an insecure medical device, but despite the risk, only 17% of device makers and 15% of HDOs take steps to prevent attacks, according to Ponemon.

This means cyber attacks can go unnoticed. In fact, only about 56% of healthcare data breaches are discovered within several days and 39% of healthcare data breaches take months — or more — before being discovered, according to a Verizon study