In recent years, healthcare organizations have increasingly moved their healthcare information systems applications and infrastructure to the cloud to take advantage of its scalability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
To mitigate these risks, health organizations need to adopt a comprehensive security posture management approach that covers both cloud security posture management and application security posture management.
While CSPM solutions focus on monitoring and securing the cloud infrastructure itself, it's the ASPM solutions that secure the health applications running on that infrastructure.
ASPM is a holistic approach to application security that involves continuous discovery and monitoring, assessment, business logic exploitation and remediation of applications and their vulnerabilities across the entire software development lifecycle.
It helps organizations identify and prioritize security issues, and provides guidance and tools to help them mitigate and remediate vulnerabilities, protecting them from unauthorized data access, interception, manipulation, HIPAA and other regulatory violations, and disruption of services.
Integration of ASPM. By integrating ASPM into their security posture management strategy, healthcare organizations can secure data transmitted between health information systems, discover APIs in use they may not have known about, identify vulnerabilities in their applications, prioritize remediation efforts, and ultimately reduce their overall security risk.
By filling coverage gaps in CSPM, ASPM can help health organizations save money by avoiding costly security breaches, financial losses, compliance issues and fines, reputation damage and downtime.
ASPM can help by discovering all APIs in use, mapping those APIs to specific web and mobile applications, providing visibility into the security posture of all applications, and identifying which ones have the most sensitive data.
This information can help healthcare organizations prioritize their security efforts and allocate resources more effectively.
Automate security testing and compliance checks - Another way that ASPM can save costs and fill coverage gaps is by automating security testing and compliance checks.
By automating security testing and compliance checks, organizations can save costs on manual testing and reduce the risk of human error.
Integrate security into the development process - ASPM can also help health organizations fill coverage gaps by integrating security into the software development process.
By incorporating security scans into this process, organizations can ensure that security is built into the application from the ground up.
Monitor application behavior in real-time - Another key aspect of ASPM is monitoring application behavior in real-time.
By monitoring application behavior in real-time, healthcare organizations can quickly detect and respond to security incidents, minimizing the impact of a possible breach to PHI and PII. Machine-learning based anomaly detection has become more mainstream for addressing these types of API and application-centric attacks in recent years.
By using these tools to automate the remediation process, organizations can save time and reduce their overall security risk.
To get the most out of their security posture management efforts, healthcare organizations should integrate ASPM with CSPM. By doing so, they can fill coverage gaps in CSPM - including API discovery and vulnerability checks - to identify and address vulnerabilities in their applications that cannot be detected by CSPM alone.
This integration can also help organizations save costs by avoiding security breaches, compliance issues and fines, and downtime caused by application vulnerabilities.
Unlike CSPM, ASPM enables organizations to continuously monitor the security posture of applications and services so they can identify areas for improvement and take action to remediate vulnerabilities and reduce risks.
By discovering all APIs, identifying and prioritizing critical applications, prioritizing remediation efforts, automating security testing and compliance checks, integrating security into the development process, using risk-based prioritization and monitoring for continuous improvement and auto-remediation, healthcare organizations can reduce their overall risk exposure and ensure that their applications and data are secure.
This Cyber News was published on securityboulevard.com. Publication date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:43:03 +0000