Cybersecurity company Forescout Technologies is partnering with healthcare IT risk management company First Health Advisory to work on cybersecurity and risk management in healthcare.
The partnership will automate data collection and perform mitigation risk management measures for healthcare organizations. Additionally, the partnership will work to automate evidence collection and upgrade organizations' audit processes, according to the Sept. 13 news release.
"Cybersecurity risk assessments for healthcare organizations are incredibly time-consuming, static in nature, and mandated by regulatory requirements. Moreover, the steps to mitigate assessment findings and lower risk are difficult to complete with the current cyber skills shortage," Tamer Baker, vice president of global healthcare at Forescout, said. "This partnership and new approach that combines intuitive risk assessment and automated mitigation technology will allow healthcare organizations to not only make risk assessments easier and faster to complete, but also free up internal resources to support other critical aspects of the patient experience."