Just imagine you're driving down the highway, you get to your exit, and it's blocked by a gang of thieves! What do you do?! You have to get to your destination, and it's a matter of life or death! Why life or death? Because at the other end of that exit is the hospital you're trying to reach, for an important surgery.
People's lives depend on your arrival to the hospital.
Technology in healthcare is now a vital part of the health journey. Technology contributes to the surgery, as much as is does to the lab results, prescription and doses given to a patient.
Anytime you think of a journey, whether it is a patient journey, or a journey of a retail item or even a journey of a document that a lawyer prepares for court. Everyone of these journeys depends on network traffic, which needs to be secured to ensure the integrity of that journey and the data it carries.
Network security is process that enables us to be confident in the systems we are using, and helps us depend on the efficiencies that Information Technology provides us.