Modernizing Healthcare with Byos
Protecting Patients and Critical Systems
Hospitals and healthcare facilities face immense challenges in securing ever-expanding complex networks of interconnected devices, IoT systems, and legacy infrastructure. Byos’ Secure Edge™ microsegmentation technology protects healthcare environments by making devices and networks invisible while ensuring seamless, secure connectivity.
The Challenges in Healthcare
Healthcare facilities operate some of the most complex networks in any industry. With a wide range of devices—from patient monitors and smart beds to HVAC systems and legacy applications—securing these assets is a monumental task. Cyber threats targeting these systems can compromise patient data, disrupt operations, and endanger lives.
Expanding Threat Surface
The proliferation of IoT devices and connected medical equipment increases potential attack vectors.
Legacy Infrastructure
Many devices operate on outdated systems that lack modern security protections.
Complex Network Management and Security
Multiple VLANs, private/public Wi-Fi, and telemedicine solutions make network oversight and security difficult.
Introducing Byos for Healthcare Networks
Byos tackles these challenges with the Secure Edge™ platform, providing hardware-enforced, device-level microsegmentation and secure granular access controls. Each device is isolated within its own secure “network of one,” blocking unauthorized access and completely preventing any lateral movement or ransomware spread, allowing healthcare providers to focus on patient care with confidence.
Key Benefits
Enhanced Patient Safety and Care Continuity
By ensuring secure and reliable network connectivity, Byos allows healthcare providers to maintain uninterrupted patient care and avoid disruptions caused by cyber incidents.
Simplified Network Security Management
The Byos Management Console allows centralized control, real-time policy updates, and threat monitoring across thousands of devices.
Secure Connectivity for Legacy Devices
Extend the life of old, legacy medical systems and avoid costly infrastructure overhauls by implementing Byos’ secure, plug-and-play solutions.
How It Works
Each medical device secured by Byos is placed in a secure microsegment, ensuring it cannot interact with other devices without authorization. This allows for any threats to be contained far more effectively than any existing network security solution.
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Enable Secure Remote Access
Technicians and administrators can securely access medical devices through the Byos Secure Lobby™ SDN Overlay and Management Console™ without exposing the network to the internet.
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Microsegmentation for Device Isolation
Each device is placed in its own secure microsegment, preventing lateral movement and containing potential threats.
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First-Hop Protection
Byos drops all attempts to scan, fingerprint, or enumerate devices at the first point of contact, protecting devices across OSI Layers 1-5.
Key Differentiators: How Byos Stands Out
Unlike traditional microsegmentation solutions that rely solely on network-level controls, Byos operates at the device level, providing a unique blend of network and endpoint security. Byos creates a secure, isolated environment for each device, ensuring that even compromised systems cannot be leveraged to access the broader network. This “network of one” approach is what sets Byos apart in the healthcare industry.
Why Healthcare Providers Trust Byos
Monitor and Respond in Real-Time
Centralized monitoring provides real-time insights, enabling proactive threat detection and instant response, including ransomware containment.
Zero Trust Policy Enforcement
Through the Byos Management Console™, administrators can effectively enforce granular, least-privilege access control for users, devices, and roles, adhering to Zero Trust principles and ensuring only authorized users can interact with devices.
Security for IoT-enabled healthcare devices
Byos isolates IoT devices such as smart beds, patient monitors, and connected diagnostic tools - ensuring anonymized traffic, secure data flow and preventing unauthorized access.
Flexible Deployment Options with Byos
Byos supports healthcare environments with versatile form factors, securing medical devices, legacy systems, and IoT infrastructure. From hospital floors to remote healthcare operations, Byos enables seamless, scalable security tailored to your needs.
Byos Secure Gateway Edge™:
Deploy the Secure Gateway Edge™, Byos’ plug-and-play IoT gateway, to safeguard large-scale networks, such as hospital IT and OT systems, medical devices, and facility management infrastructure.
Byos Secure Embedded Edge™:
Integrated directly into medical devices during manufacturing, offering built-in microsegmentation and endpoint protection, Byo’s System-on-Module ensures that critical devices such as patient monitors or connected diagnostic tools are secured from the inside out.
Byos Secure Firmware Edge™:
For MDMs that want a full software deployment, the Secure Firmware Edge can be installed inside of the medical device, sitting between the OS and the network interface.
Get the Byos Healthcare Use Case
See a Demo
Whether it’s securing legacy medical equipment or connecting IoT devices, Byos ensures that your network is protected at every endpoint—keeping patient care uninterrupted and data uncompromised. Book a demo session with our team to discover more.
