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Masergy and Fortinet Release IDG Healthcare IT Survey Results
15 Jan, 2021
Converged Network and Security Essential as Telemedicine and Connected Medical Devices Deemed Top Challenges
DALLAS, TX - January 12, 2021 - Masergy, the software-defined network and cloud platform for the digital enterprise, today released results from a new IDG research study, co-sponsored by Fortinet, on the state of IT in the healthcare industry. The study surveyed IT leaders from hospitals, primary and urgent care facilities, pharmaceutical companies, and other healthcare entities. The goal was to shed light on how pandemic-driven changes, including increases in telemedicine and remote workers, have accelerated demands for network resiliency and cloud security, as well as the need for an integrated approach to solving these challenges. “Healthcare IT teams have daunting technical challenges to ensure network bandwidth, resilience, and security in the face of surging online care, including telemedicine, remote workforces, and medical IoT,” explained Ray Watson, vice president of innovation at Masergy. “The IDG Healthcare IT survey reveals that an integrated network and security strategy is now an imperative to address these challenges.” Key findings from the survey include:- 95% of respondents report an increase in network traffic since March 2020, with 92% having to increase network bandwidth capacity to accommodate an influx of connected medical devices
- Top three security challenges for healthcare IT:
- Cloud security (46%)
- Security of medical connected devices (46%)
- Remote and mobile workforce (36%)
- 54% expect IT budgets to increase in 2021
- 71% consider it highly important to integrate network solutions with security policies
- 60% indicate having a single security architecture delivering consistent security policies across multiple locations is highly important
- 65% say integrating security with SD-WAN solutions is considered critical or highly important
- 87% are interested or very interested in secure access service edge (SASE), converged offerings combining WAN capabilities with network security functions
- 80% indicate they are likely or very likely (44%) to engage a managed services provider to handle network and/or security services
