It is not uncommon for healthcare vendors to maintain VPN access to hospital networks to update clinical apps and monitor or service clinical equipment.
It is also a common practice for healthcare institutions to grant access to clinical apps or billing systems for third-party workers. In many cases, VPN is used to establish access between partner and hospital networks.
Many in Healthcare IT now recognize the danger with exposing hospital networks to partners over VPN as this creates a bridge that allows ransomware traversal between both. An attack over exposed VPN will cause downtime and data compromise, and in some cases heavy fines and loss of reputation.
To create secure partner access to hospital networks, customers rely on TruGrid’s zero – trust architecture, which blocks all data traversal between partner and hospital network, while allowing partners to work remotely while data remains safe within the hospital datacenter