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Oct 20, 2025 Jeff Collins, CEO of WanAware and an expert in IT asset visibility for healthcare, dives into the implications of hospital consolidations on security. He reveals how these mergers lead to unknown assets, increasing operational risks. Collins discusses the importance of leveraging existing data for accurate inventory and emphasizes continuous discovery to adapt to tech changes. He also addresses the challenge of alert overload, advising on prioritizing high-risk incidents for cybersecurity teams to tackle effectively.
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Consolidation Creates Asset Blind Spots
- Hospital consolidations create large blind spots in device inventories across merged facilities.
- These unknown assets amplify both security and operational risk for healthcare systems.
Unknown Yet Active Devices Cause Problems
- Many problematic devices are 'technically active' but unknown and connected to Wi‑Fi or Ethernet jacks nobody monitors.
- These devices are unpatched, uncontrolled, and can provide easy entry points or operational single points of failure.
Breaches Reveal Visibility Gaps, Outages Hide Them
- Publicly disclosed breaches hint at asset‑visibility failures but operational impacts often remain unreported.
- Lack of mandatory disclosures for operational outages masks the true scope of consolidation risk.