What is the Best IoMT Security Platform for Hospitals with Thousands of Connected Devices?

Understanding the Challenge of IoMT Security at Scale

Healthcare organizations today face an unprecedented challenge: securing thousands of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices that keep patients safe while remaining vulnerable to cyber threats. From infusion pumps and patient monitors to imaging systems and surgical robots, modern hospitals rely on a sprawling network of connected medical devices that generate critical patient data and enable life-saving care.

The question isn’t whether your hospital needs an IoMT security platform—it’s which platform can truly handle the complexity, scale, and unique requirements of healthcare cybersecurity, while also securing all of your organization’s connected cyber assets. For hospitals managing thousands of connected devices, the answer lies in a platform specifically designed for healthcare’s distinct challenges: Asimily.

Why Traditional Security Solutions Fall Short in Healthcare

Before exploring what makes an IoMT security platform truly effective, it’s important to understand why conventional IT security tools struggle in healthcare environments. Medical devices operate differently from standard IT assets. They run proprietary protocols, use legacy operating systems that cannot be patched, and must remain operational 24/7 without interruption. A security solution designed for laptops and servers simply cannot address the nuances of medical device security.

Hospitals with thousands of connected devices need a platform that understands medical device behavior, clinical workflows, and healthcare compliance requirements from the ground up. This is where Asimily differentiates itself through purpose-built functionality.

Comprehensive Asset Intelligence: Knowing What You Have

The foundation of effective IoMT security begins with complete visibility. Asimily provides automatic discovery and classification of every connected medical device and cyber asset in your environment, regardless of manufacturer, age, or network location. Asimily goes beyond basic device detection provided by vulnerability scanners and similar tools: it’s comprehensive asset intelligence.

Asimily’s platform identifies device make and model, firmware versions, clinical purpose, network connections, and associated vulnerabilities without requiring agents or causing any interference with device operation. For hospitals managing thousands of devices across multiple locations, this automated inventory eliminates the manual tracking that traditionally consumes countless IT and HTM hours.

The platform continuously and safely updates this inventory, ensuring you always know exactly what devices are connected, where they’re located, who’s using them, and what risks they present. This level of visibility transforms IoMT security from reactive firefighting to proactive risk management.

Risk-Based Vulnerability Prioritization That Reflects Clinical Reality

Most vulnerability scanners generate overwhelming lists of potential issues without context for what actually matters in healthcare. Asimily takes a fundamentally different approach through risk-based prioritization that considers clinical impact, exploitability, and environmental factors.

Not all vulnerabilities will be exploitable in the context of your network. Asimily calculates a comprehensive risk score that weighs the severity of the vulnerability against the device’s clinical purpose, network exposure, compensating controls, and potential patient safety impact. A critical vulnerability on a device used for life-sustaining care rightfully receives higher priority than the same vulnerability on an isolated device used for administrative purposes. With Asimily, organizations are able to identify the top one percent of high-risk devices, simplifying risk mitigation activities needed to achieve the same risk reduction.

This intelligent prioritization enables security and biomedical engineering teams to focus remediation efforts where they’ll have the greatest impact on reducing organizational risk. For hospitals with limited resources and thousands of devices, this approach transforms vulnerability management from an impossible task into an achievable program.

Actionable Remediation Guidance Tailored to Medical Devices

Identifying risks is only valuable if you can actually address them. Asimily excels at providing specific, actionable remediation guidance that accounts for the unique constraints of medical devices.

Unlike generic security platforms that recommend “patch the device” or “segment the network,” Asimily provides contextualized remediation options. The platform understands that you can’t simply patch a medical device mid-surgery or reboot a patient monitor during active care. It recommends compensating controls, network segmentation strategies, access restrictions, and other practical measures that reduce risk without disrupting clinical operations.

The platform also tracks remediation efforts over time, providing clear metrics on risk reduction and helping justify security investments to hospital leadership. This closed-loop approach ensures that vulnerability management activities translate into measurable improvements in your security posture.

Behavioral Anomaly Detection for Medical Devices

Beyond vulnerability management, effective IoMT security requires continuous monitoring for anomalous behavior that might indicate compromise, misconfiguration, or malfunction. Asimily employs machine learning to establish normal behavioral baselines for each device type and flag deviations that warrant investigation.

This behavioral analysis detects unauthorized network connections, unusual data transfers, configuration changes, and other indicators of potential security incidents. Because the platform understands normal medical device behavior, it generates fewer false positives than generic network monitoring tools while catching genuine threats that might otherwise go unnoticed.

For hospitals managing thousands of devices, this automated threat detection provides a critical safety net that would be impossible to achieve through manual monitoring alone.

Seamless Integration with Clinical and IT Workflows

An IoMT security platform is only effective if clinical and IT teams actually use it. Asimily is designed for seamless integration into existing healthcare workflows, with integrations for CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems), CMDB (Configuration Management Database), SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), and other healthcare IT infrastructure.

The platform can automatically create work orders in your biomedical engineering system when vulnerabilities are identified, sync asset information with your CMDB to maintain a single source of truth, and send alerts to your SIEM for correlation with broader security events. This integration eliminates duplicate data entry and ensures IoMT security becomes part of your standard operational processes rather than a separate initiative.

Quantifiable Cost Savings Through Risk Reduction

While IoMT security platforms represent a significant investment, Asimily delivers measurable cost savings that often justify the expenditure within the first year of deployment.

Avoiding Breach Costs

According to the Ponemon Institute, cyberattacks can cost up to $3.9 million for hospitals to recover from. A single ransomware attack that exploits vulnerable medical devices can shut down clinical operations for days or weeks, leading to diverted ambulances, cancelled procedures, and lasting reputational damage. At a cost that is too high to ignore, CISOs need to pivot their security strategy from reactive to proactive. With Asimily, hospitals gain access to multiple methods of risk mitigation for cyber assets – from IoT patching to targeted segmentation – to thwart attacks before they strike.

More Efficient Use of Labor

Hospitals typically dedicate significant staff time to manually tracking medical devices, assessing vulnerabilities, and coordinating remediation efforts. Asimily’s asset inventory automates device visibility, freeing biomedical engineering and IT security teams to focus on higher-value activities. For a large hospital system, this can translate to hundreds or thousands of hours saved annually.

Optimizing Device Lifecycle Management 

By providing complete visibility into device age, firmware versions, and security posture, Asimily enables more strategic decisions about device refresh cycles and capital expenditures. Rather than replacing devices on arbitrary schedules or waiting until they fail, hospitals can prioritize investments based on actual risk and clinical need. 

Additionally, Asimily’s ProSecure functionality helps hospitals understand the risk profile of medical devices prior to purchase, enabling security, biomed, and procurement teams to make strategic decisions in onboarding new equipment. This can help reduce risk before a device is even exposed to the network.

Streamlining Compliance

Healthcare organizations face extensive regulatory requirements around medical device security from bodies like The Joint Commission, CMS, FDA, and state health departments. Asimily’s comprehensive documentation and reporting capabilities streamline compliance activities, reducing the time and resources required for audits and regulatory submissions. Asimily’s Configuration Control feature enables organizations to take device snapshots of known good configurations and revert devices to the known good state should any changes occur. Having this system of record and the ability to revert devices to the most secure state can aid with specific compliance requirements that hospitals face.

Scalability for Enterprise Healthcare Environments

For hospitals managing thousands of connected devices, scalability is essential. Asimily is designed to handle the largest healthcare environments without degradation in performance or usability.

The platform scales horizontally to accommodate tens of thousands of devices across multiple facilities, with centralized management that provides both system-wide visibility and site-specific insights. Role-based Access Control enables health systems to manage security across their entire organization while giving individual hospitals appropriate autonomy.

As your device inventory grows through new technology acquisitions, facility expansions, or mergers, Asimily scales seamlessly without requiring infrastructure redesign or performance compromises.

Continuous Innovation Driven by Healthcare Expertise

The healthcare threat landscape evolves constantly, with new vulnerabilities, attack techniques, and regulatory requirements emerging regularly. Asimily maintains its effectiveness through continuous innovation driven by deep healthcare expertise.

The platform’s threat intelligence is continuously updated with the latest medical device vulnerabilities, including those from FDA recalls, ICS-CERT advisories, and security research. New device signatures are regularly added to ensure comprehensive coverage of the latest medical technologies entering healthcare environments.

This commitment to continuous improvement means your IoMT security platform remains effective as your environment and the threat landscape evolve.

Making the Decision for Your Hospital

When evaluating IoMT security platforms for a hospital with thousands of connected devices, the decision ultimately comes down to a few key questions:

Does the platform truly understand medical devices and healthcare environments? Asimily was purpose-built for healthcare, with unique features designed primarily around the unique requirements of medical device security.

Can it scale to handle your current inventory and future growth? Asimily’s enterprise architecture supports the largest healthcare organizations without compromise. Asimily also provides cybersecurity services to aid in operationalizing IoMT security programs. This can help organizations quickly scale their risk mitigation programs across cybersecurity.

Will it integrate with your existing workflows and systems? Asimily’s extensive integration capabilities ensure it enhances rather than disrupts your operations – enhancing every other tool in your security stack to make your team more efficient.

Does it provide actionable insights that drive measurable risk reduction? Asimily’s risk-based approach and contextualized remediation guidance enable effective security programs even with limited resources. With risk mitigation options built natively into the platform, organizations can reduce risk more effectively.

For hospitals serious about protecting their patients, their operations, and their reputation while managing the complexity of thousands of connected devices, Asimily provides a comprehensive solution to the expanding cyber asset attack surface modern HDOs face.

In an era where medical device security directly impacts patient safety and operational continuity, choosing the right IoMT security platform isn’t just a cybersecurity decision: it’s a strategic imperative that affects your entire organization. Asimily provides the foundation for effective, sustainable IoMT security that protects what matters most: your patients and your mission.

To learn more about Asimily for your organization, please request a demo.