Ransomware and other cyberattacks on hospitals have risen sharply in recent years, and the damage, financial and reputational, has grown with them. For a hospital, a network incident is not a back-office problem; it reaches the ward.
Part of what makes hospitals so exposed is the network itself. A hospital runs a large population of devices that cannot simply be patched or rebuilt on demand: medical equipment, often certified as a fixed unit and in service for a decade. On a flat network, a single infected workstation can reach all of them. Micro-segmentation is the technical answer to that, and this project is about proving it works where it is genuinely hard to apply.
Validating it where it is hardest
narrowin's micro-segmentation solution is being validated for hospital use in a pilot project, with a university of applied sciences as the research partner and a hospital as the implementation partner. The point is not a lab demonstration, but a test in a real clinical environment.
And the work goes beyond the technical validation. The solution is being extended to cover organisational and industry-specific aspects too, because in a hospital a security measure that clinical staff cannot live with will not survive contact with daily operations, however sound it is on paper.
