Even before COVID-19, endpoints were everywhere in healthcare: desktops, laptops, workstations, mobile devices. As healthcare’s digital ecosystem expanded, so did the number of endpoints. The pandemic forced healthcare organizations to mobilize and virtualize their workforce on very short notice, dramatically increasing the number of remote endpoints even more.  As the modern healthcare workforce becomes more mobile and more virtual, it’s essential for these endpoints to interface and function securely with each other and the network.

In this HIMSS Security Basics segment, speakers will discuss cybersecurity hygiene practices essential to securing healthcare’s expanding endpoint perimeter.

Key discussion points

• Remote / endpoint security access strategy
• Endpoint protection capabilities worth investigating or adopting
• Traditional endpoints vs. IoT / IoMT.
• Microsegmentation: What types of assets groupings to create 
• Securing the mobile workforce
• What healthcare organizations most often get wrong when implementing endpoint protection programs