Leadership Wednesday | Hello Tech Pros

Nick Rust has spent the majority of his professional career working in Healthcare IT (10 years), with a particular emphasis in Health Care and Medical Device information security. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/nick-rust-technology/ Key Takeaways It's common that most people don't have experience in healthcare IT. When medical devices first came out, it was an instrument, not a piece of information technology. Radiology has more tech and devices than most other departments. Biotech been around for decades, IT came in 1980s. New biotech are computers integrated into the instruments. The facilities and instruments are not good at network segmentation. FDA recently said that the industry is far below standard. The most basic security features are missing in many biotech areas. No network whitelisting. Running Windows XP. Gaining network access to medical devices is an excellent way of escalating level of access across the network. If you can gain control of one hospital in a network of 7