{"id":274473,"date":"2026-06-16T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/why-medical-cybersecurity-is-a-team-effort\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:25:23","slug":"why-medical-cybersecurity-is-a-team-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/why-medical-cybersecurity-is-a-team-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Why medical cybersecurity is a team effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotmed.com\/news\/story\/66465\">Why medical cybersecurity is a team effort<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotmed.com\/news\/story\/66465\">https:\/\/www.dotmed.com\/news\/story\/66465<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-16 10:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.dotmed.com\">www.dotmed.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tMedical device cybersecurity can no longer be viewed simply as an IT responsibility. Priyanka Sollinger, BS, MS, CHTM, AAMIF, vice president of cybersecurity services at Asimily, reinforced that point during the AAMI eXchange session, \u201cBreaking Silos, Building Security: Collateral Duty for All.\u201d Protecting connected medical devices, she said, requires shared accountability across healthcare technology management (HTM), IT, cybersecurity, procurement, clinical engineering, and vendors\u2014roles that can no longer operate in silos.<\/p>\n<p>Sollinger first raised the alarm about medical device cybersecurity at AAMI in 2015, and she said the stakes are even higher today. \u201cHealthcare remains a top ransomware target,\u201d she told attendees. \u201cWe have to advance how we manage these devices.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Cyber safety, she argued, is patient safety. But many organizations still struggle with fragmented ownership and disconnected workflows.<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stats\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dotmed.com\/tracking\/img.jpg?track=large&#038;id=73398348&#038;other_id=8539\" style=\"display:none\"\/>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ddm\/trackimp\/N428001.1064085DOTMED.COM\/B34925364.444252702;dc_trk_aid=642013989;dc_trk_cid=256682083;ord=1781619918;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;tfua=;gdpr=${GDPR};gdpr_consent=${GDPR_CONSENT_755};ltd=;dc_tdv=1?\" attributionsrc=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"Advertisement\"\/>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"DOTmed text ad\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dotmed.com\/images\/ad_logo\/ad8539.jpg\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><h3>Ad Statistics<\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\tTimes Displayed: 7619<br \/>Times Visited: 17\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h4>\t\t\t\tTraining and education based on your needs\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<p class=\"d-none d-md-block\">Stay up to date with the latest training to fix, troubleshoot, and maintain your critical care devices. GE HealthCare offers multiple training formats to empower teams and expand knowledge, saving you time and money.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stats\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dotmed.com\/images\/statsBarButton.png\" style=\"padding-left:15px\" onmouseover=\"$(\" onmouseout=\"$(\"\/>\t\t\t\u201cOwnership confusion is a big [issue],\u201d she said. The result is delayed remediation, duplicated effort, and gaps in vulnerability management. HTM teams often sit in the middle\u2014expected to support cybersecurity without consistent access to the systems or tools needed to act effectively, Sollinger explained.<\/p>\n<p>Those challenges grow quickly in connected environments. Hospitals now manage thousands of networked medical devices across multiple facilities, with responsibility split across procurement, IT, security, clinical engineering, and operations. When ownership is unclear, vulnerabilities linger while teams determine who has authority to act. What begins as a technology issue&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotmed.com\/news\/story\/66465\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why medical cybersecurity is a team effort https:\/\/www.dotmed.com\/news\/story\/66465 Publish Date: 2026-06-16 10:14:00 Source Domain: www.dotmed.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.dotmed.com\/images\/news\/stories\/66465.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57,27],"class_list":["post-274473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274475,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274473\/revisions\/274475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}