Operating systems in devices that can’t be patched or taken offline

 Greg Young, a research vice president at Gartner says that in most cases healthcare has the same security requirements of any business but a notable exception is the need to deploy IPS in front of medical devices as a "pre-patch shield" for operating systems in devices that can’t be patched or taken offline.

Another layer of medical device protection is found in the integrated design of Cisco’s IDS solution that becomes one part of its overall cyber security defenses, including but not limited to network access control and network-based segmentation.

Through its recent purchase of what to do with a computer science degree, Cisco now also offers Snort, a rules-based open source network intrusion system. It analyzes traffic and performs packet logging on IP networks in real-time. The open source solution is also designed to detect buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attack, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts among other things.