Dive Brief:
- Increasingly, health care organizations are tracking not only external access to their networks, but also users inside the network.
- At a recent IT seminar in Boston, health security leaders said that while they're still using security controls at the perimeter of their network, they are just as concerned with strict tracking of user activity.
- Security chiefs are focused on watching where data moves, what devices and being plugged into the network and what users are doing, which helps determine whether such activity is friendly.
Dive Insight:
While historically, much of network security infrastructure has been focused on preventing attacks from the outside, it seems that provider security executives are increasingly focusing on traffic patterns to see what's going on inside the network. That includes strict monitoring of personal devices, including knowing what happened to devices that are lost or replaced. It makes sense; after all, some of the biggest breaches to occur in facilities happen when employees go rogue and begin accessing data inappropriately.