Case Study: Healthcare Company achieves early detection and remediation of infected IoT medical devices with Attivo Networks

Healthcare Customer Detects Infected Iot Devices

Healthcare Company, a large enterprise with 15,000+ employees, faced undetected malware spreading from newly deployed patient-monitoring IoT devices that bypassed existing security controls. They engaged Attivo Networks and implemented Attivo Networks’ network deception solutions (deployed in production using default services and VMs) to detect and investigate suspicious IoT activity.

Attivo Networks’ deception deployment surfaced multiple medium- and high-severity events — including unsigned executable drops and suspect process activity — where IoT devices were observed dropping malware onto decoys. Using Attivo Networks’ detections, the Healthcare Company traced the infected monitoring system and remediated it before the malware spread to other systems, preventing further compromise across the environment.