Attendees joined Splunk and Carahsoft to learn how Splunk uses the power of machine data to monitor network connected medical devices. This is done for proper privacy and security safeguards to mitigate risk to patients and clinical care delivery, device uptime and operational dependencies, environmental changes and on-boarding of new devices, monitor for anomalous users and device behaviors, and mitigate risk with expansion into the remote services space.
Many business challenges that are present in the healthcare space include:
- Surge in telehealth expands telemonitoring remote services introducing risk
- Bad actors are hijacking devices and manipulating the function of the device
- Securing medical devices that are connected to the network
- Complex networks with a high number of interoperable systems, vendors, and users
- FDA regulatory restraints and manufacturer lock-down complicates software patching
- Lack of visibility into devices and ability to monitor for device maintenance