Understanding how your cybersecurity risk posture compares to healthcare organizations of a similar size can give you a more complete understanding of either gaps in your strategy that must be addressed or reassurance that the measures you’ve adopted are bolstering your cyber protection. With an increase in healthcare cyber incidents targeting medical devices, building automation systems, and OT assets, also known as cyber-physical systems (CPS), it’s important to understand how other healthcare organizations are addressing risk and whether your organization stacks up.
Gain new insight on the benefits of performing industry benchmarking and how comparing your risk landscape to peer institutions can benefit your organization, improve your security posture, and protect patient care from potential disruptions due to exposures or vulnerabilities on your healthcare network.
Benefits of Risk Benchmarking in Healthcare Cybersecurity
Benchmarking against peer institutions has long been a best practice in healthcare. Comparing your organization against top-performing facilities or those of similar size can lead to better patient care and outcomes, identify areas for improvement, enhance quality of care and reduce errors. Benchmarking for cyber risk raises the stakes even higher, ensuring your organization has a grasp on high-risk devices or exposures on your network before an incident occurs.
Risk benchmarking specifically offers insights into your environment and connected devices to show how your organization might be vulnerable. Some of the benefits of identifying, assessing, and prioritizing CPS risk reduction through benchmarking include:
Seeing how your organization's risk landscape compares to hospitals and clinics of a similar size
Visualizing how the most critical assets you rely on are or aren’t protected
Measuring the current risk reduction efforts you have in place over time across multiple risk factors in your network
Risk benchmarks offer an extensive analysis of your healthcare organization’s security posture by looking at key metrics such as total risk, critical and high-risk devices, and likelihood components. Pairing all these insights with a look into industry averages, best outcomes, and changes over time can help your organization take note of areas to improve upon or gaps that may need to be addressed.
Industry Benchmarking With Claroty xDome
Claroty xDome for healthcare provides the exact dashboard your organization needs to understand your risk and compare your security posture against similarly sized organizations. With our unique insight of capturing data across various types of devices in a variety of healthcare environments globally, we can provide unique industry benchmarks of where you stand when it comes to your overall cybersecurity program. With Claroty xDome, gain critical insights, including:
Total Risk: Gain a better understanding of your risk with critical and high-risk devices and compare your organization’s overall risk score in comparison to peer organization
Likelihood Factors: Determine the risk factors, from vulnerabilities to VLAN topology, that may be contributing to the likelihood of exploitation in your organization.
Risk Reduction Trends: Evaluate risk reduction efforts over a defined period of time to compare overall reduction and total risk against your peers
With Claroty xDome’s healthcare industry risk benchmarking you are able to filter by device type and other key attributes. a granular understanding of the risks in your environment. If a biomedical engineer, for example, wanted to review the risk factors for medical devices only, they have the ability to do so by filtering through the dashboard to understand what the devices that they are directly responsible for.
Overall, taking the time to better understand your risk landscape and the gaps your organization may have in your security posture can pay dividends if you’re able to identify and manage exposures before they happen. To receive a risk benchmarking assessment to better understand your organization’s security posture and compare against peer organizations, reach out to a member of our team today.
