Critical Medical Devices Unable to Support PQC Transition
Forescout finds most medical devices cannot adopt post-quantum cryptography, exposing long-lived healthcare data.
Forescout analyzed more than 2.5 million devices across more than 50 healthcare delivery organizations and found only 6% of IoMT devices and 16% of medical OT devices use SSH implementations that can support post-quantum cryptography, versus about 50% of traditional IT devices. More than 5,500 internet-exposed systems were identified, including EMR and PACS platforms, and only 31% of those support TLS 1.3. Researchers warned that long-lived medical data is exposed to harvest-now, decrypt-later collection ahead of expected quantum attacks within about five years.
- Only 6% of IoMT and 16% of medical OT devices can support PQC.
- Researchers found more than 5,500 internet-exposed healthcare systems.
- Just 31% of those exposed systems support TLS 1.3.
- Long-lived medical records face harvest-now, decrypt-later risk.
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Forescout found that just 6% of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and 16% of medical OT are capable of supporting post quantum cryptography
By James Coker · infosecurity-magazine.com
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