Healthcare cybersecurity: protecting patient care

Obligations for hospitals

In Germany, hospitals must take appropriate state-of-the-art precautions under § 75c SGB V (Social Code Book V); the industry-specific security standard for hospital care (B3S) serves as guidance. Large hospitals also count as critical infrastructure, and many organizations fall under NIS2.

Medical devices and legacy networks

Medical devices often run on outdated operating systems and cannot be patched at will. That makes visibility and segmentation all the more important: Which devices are reachable where, and through which paths could an attacker reach them? Exposure management shows these paths, and Gate separates devices into their own zones.

Detect attacks early

Ransomware attacks on hospitals usually start inconspicuously: a compromised account, an exposed remote access point. XMfortress Detect links such early signals into incidents before systems are encrypted – see also ransomware protection.

Evidence for audits

Inventory, vulnerability handling and detected incidents are documented in XMfortress and available as reports for audits and management.