campaigns are more likely to succeed, giving threat actors a foothold they can then exploit.

Traditional, perimeter-based security is no longer sufficient to defend these environments against today’ s threats. This is like trying to diagnose diseases by looking only for a single symptom – lots of things will get missed.

The power of complete visibility To effectively defend themselves, healthcare institutions must shift from a reactive to a more proactive security approach. The foundation of this shift is having complete visibility.

After all, organisations cannot protect themselves from what they cannot see. In the healthcare setting, visibility means having a deep, consistent real-time understanding of all activity occurring across the entire digital ecosystem.

This can be achieved through systematic, continuous monitoring of network traffic and other telemetry sources, to establish an understanding of normal behaviour. When IT and security teams know what‘ normal’ looks like, it becomes easier to spot the subtle anomalies that often serve as the earliest indicators of a breach – and beyond this, it also makes triage and investigation much faster.

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