Mayo Clinic’s strategies for securing medical devices

Healthcare organizations, including the Mayo Clinic, are working to improve medical device security in response to the growing digital transformation in healthcare. Connected medical devices present new cybersecurity risks, and traditional IT security methods may not be applicable. Mayo Clinic’s approach to securing medical devices is risk-based and proactive, focusing on assessing initial risks, mitigating them, and automating workflows. They have developed the Security Lifecycle Profile (SLP) as a best practice, which tracks risks associated with specific devices and helps develop risk scores.