New York-based Medigate is working with CrowdStrike to provide healthcare organisations with unified endpoint security for medical IoT devices.

The integration is said to enable comprehensive visibility, enhanced risk management and security enforcement.

California-based CrowdStrike provides cloud-delivered endpoint and workload protection. The partnership with Medigate provides healthcare delivery organisations (HDOs) with a consolidated view of threat activity and incident response capability spanning all connected assets.

With the number of medical devices connecting to a hospital’s network increasing on a daily basis, HDOs struggle to maintain visibility of the location and activity of each endpoint that a device may connect to, as well as protect and manage them. Medigate and CrowdStrike solve this by streamlining security responses and improving overall network efficiency.

“We’ve seen a significant number of cyber and ransomware attacks against hospitals in the past year and it will only continue to rise in the future,” said Matthew Polly, CrowdStrike vice president. “A hospital’s focus needs to be on patient care, rather than responding to outside threats. Medigate’s unique focus on the healthcare IoT industry is highly effective in helping to reduce attack surfaces. With CrowdStrike and Medigate, HDOs can accurately see, detect, respond and prevent attacks across the IT and clinical landscape to keep their operations and their data – including the patient information – safe.”

The CrowdStrike Falcon platform integrates with the Medigate platform allowing HDOs to perform comprehensive risk management, anomaly detection and enhanced response. The integration provides hospitals with visibility into all managed and unmanaged devices along with enhanced threat detection capabilities that power accurate responses.

“Today’s HDOs face specific challenges that need specialised solutions, not only in securing their vital personnel and devices, but in creating processes that ensure the benefits of connected health,” said Jonathan Langer, chief executive officer of Medigate. “By partnering with CrowdStrike, we are delivering on this vision by empowering HDOs to detect and shut-down attacks. The endpoint protections our joint solution enables positions HDOs for the safe adoption of telehealth, remote patient monitoring and other networked care initiatives.”

Todd Felker, former director of information security at Torrance Memorial Medical Center, added: “As care delivery continues to fragment, the need for a centrally managed, integrated approach to securing both clinical and non-clinical endpoints is obvious. That’s why the Medigate-CrowdStrike partnership makes so much sense. I’m sure my enthusiasm for the benefits of this partnership is shared across the industry.”