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Healthcare PQC readiness gap across IoMT and OT devices

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A large healthcare device assessment found that most IoMT and medical OT systems cannot transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), increasing the risk of future harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks on patient data.

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Medical-device cyberattack trend in healthcare organizations

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About this happening: 24% of healthcare organizations experienced cyber-attacks affecting medical devices over the past year, creating real risk to patient care. In 80% of affected case...

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  1. 06.10.2026 15:20 2 articles · 1h ago

    Forescout finds healthcare devices are not ready for post-quantum cryptography

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    Forescout found that many medical devices across more than 50 healthcare delivery organizations cannot be upgraded to post-quantum cryptography, leaving sensitive healthcare data exposed to future quantum-enabled attacks. In an analysis of more than 2.5 million devices, only 6% of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices and 16% of medical operational technology (OT) devices used Secure Shell (SSH) implementations capable of supporting a transition to PQC, and only 31% of exposed systems supported TLS 1.3. The assessment highlights internet-exposed systems holding electronic medical records (EMRs) and picture archiving and communication systems (PACs), warns of harvest-now, decrypt-later risk, and urges healthcare organizations to begin PQC migration planning and improve visibility into the assets and data they handle.

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