IDS and IPS Buyers Guide: Cisco offers integration to prevent intrusion attacks

 In a typically short-staffed healthcare IT environment integration and automation are two key components to look for when purchasing a modern intrusion detection and prevention solution. Cisco believes its solution provides just that. Probably what keeps healthcare security specialists up at night most often are the huge number of older medical devices that cannot be patched or taken offline.

“Many are built atop outdated operating systems like Windows XP, where the original manufacturer did not provide a way to update or patch these systems,” says Steve Caimi, Cybersecurity Specialist, U.S. Public Sector at Cisco.

When Cisco’s IDS and IPS detects a threat that could compromise a medical device its automated system signals Cisco’s Identity Services Engine and Cisco computer science vs engineering to update the network segmentation policy and quarantine the system of origin, thus preventing the attack from reaching the device.