Security News > 2023 > May > Cynet Protects Hospital From Lethal Infection

A hospital with 2,000 employees in the E.U. deployed Cynet protections across its environment.

The hospital was in the process of upgrading several expensive imaging systems that were still supported by Windows XP and Windows 7 machines.

Cynet protections were in place on most of the Windows XP and Windows 7 machines during the upgrade process, ensuring that legacy operating systems would not cause vulnerabilities or delay the activation of an incident response plan.

"One of the many reasons we chose Cynet was their support of legacy Windows machines. It's expensive, difficult and time consuming to upgrade our imaging system software, but we needed protections as we slowly migrated to more current Windows environments. Cynet was one of the few providers that continue to protect these older Windows environments."

Along with Cynet, the hospital implemented advanced authentication for doctors to access systems that contained sensitive patient information in the form of a USB key.

Small to medium-sized hospitals and medical facilities continue to leverage legacy Windows operating systems due to the time and cost required to update the expensive medical systems they control.

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