Healthcare Providers Must Combine Zero Trust Architecture and Threat Modeling to Address Cybersecurity Challenges

Yeah. I'd say it sometimes gets lumped under zero trust as an umbrella or maybe zero trust architecture. But, yeah, it's it's absolutely accurate, Doctor. Robin. Yeah, and the supply chain risk is definitely a big component of national cybersecurity strategy. Then technologically, that starts to get into bills of materials. You know? SBOM is usually one of the more well known, but, there's also hardware bombs. Right? Because specifically in this sector, right, with medtech and, you know, connected devices, that it's gonna look substantially different than just the software piece. So So now you have multiple bombs, and then you have to rationalize that. But are your providers even creating and maintaining them and then furnishing them to you? That's that's a big gap. Right? We have a lot of work to do there. I do like that the cybersecurity strategy called it out. The other thing I that I should call attention to is, like, the FDA. FDA just, issued cybersecurity guidance, draft guidance, on this topic. Right? So very specific to these industries. Right? It's, the technology is very much the same. Right? We're talking about segmentation, microsegmentation, access control, detection and response capabilities, you know, bills of materials, managing your suppliers. But how do you put that in the language of the specific health care industry or when you're dealing with, medical devices? So that draft guidance exists. You know, hopefully, that moves along very quickly, and then organizations start to adopt it. But, yeah, fundamentally, like, those security principles are there. We just we really need to start doing it. Right? We and then for myself, you know, kind of in my career, how I've approached the problem is, you know, if I get involved in a discussion on how I'm gonna solve a problem, it's kind of, well, how are we gonna scale this, and then how are we gonna automate it? Right? Because if you start pulling out a piece of paper and then you're expecting to track that, right, and this is going back twenty five years, I'm like, that's never gonna work. Right? And now, you know, twenty twenty four, it's like, there's no way. Like, so if you're doing that, you've already lost. So we we need to be thinking, you know, ten steps ahead, and then how are people gonna compromise this data? Right? You might say that's threat modeling and that that would be another concept within the cybersecurity strategies, but you you have to kinda retrain your brain to think that way.