As we already know, healthcare is always a ripe hunting ground for hackers and other cybercriminals to launch their attacks. There are multiple reasons for this some of the main ones being the incredible amount of digitization that is prevalent in healthcare today, the sensitive and personal nature of data present in the personal medical records of patients, and the possibility that hijacking devices such as surgical robots or pacemakers remotely can cause health and operational malfunctioning, which can lead to the death of patients (who may be targeted by negative elements).
To keep such threats at bay, and also to keep elements such as malware, phishing, and viruses away, healthcare systems need to employ the concept of network segmentation. In the simplest terms, network segmentation is defined as a data security approach in which a connected data network is divided into multiple segments. Each segment can have its own individual working mechanism and work as an individual network. This breaking up of networks and their resources allows administrators to monitor and control network traffic and regulate data on the basis of individual segment policies.
