Q&A: How Brooklyn Hospital Center’s Security Focus Prepared It for the Pandemic

The security challenges that healthcare systems across the U.S. face were already of major concern before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Brooklyn Hospital Center had taken significant steps to improve its cybersecurity posture just in time to face the health crisis.
The hospital, which has been serving its community for over 175 years, turned to Cisco Systems a few months before the pandemic to build and manage a security operations center. The Cisco Customer Experience team helped build a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) infrastructure. Those experts actively monitor the hospital’s systems…