About the Vulnerability Management for Healthcare category
What belongs in this category
The Vulnerability Management for Healthcare category covers products and services that find security weaknesses in healthcare environments, decide which ones matter most and get them fixed. The category includes hospital IT, clinical applications and medical devices. Updates there must not interrupt patient care, and the device maker must often approve them.
Because the subject is healthcare, a solution entered here can also go into Healthcare. A vulnerability management product that serves every sector has its own category, Vulnerability Management, and can be entered in that category and this one.
Related categories to enter
Each category is judged separately, so you can enter a solution in every category that fits, with a separate nomination for each. Write each nomination for its category: on these pages, show what the solution does for organizations in the sector. The same product or service can also be entered in the product category that matches what it does. Entering several related categories gives the solution more than one chance to be recognized.
How entries are judged
An independent jury of security practitioners, analysts and CISOs scores each nomination on leadership, innovation and impact. Each nomination competes in its category against entries from vendors of similar size and region, so a mid-sized vendor is not ranked against a global enterprise. Your entry package, any sponsorship and public votes do not affect the jury's scores.
Strong entries in this category show:
- Leadership — the healthcare organizations that use the solution: hospitals and health systems served, systems and devices assessed, health regulations its reports help customers meet.
- Innovation — how the solution works within healthcare constraints, such as ranking weaknesses by risk to patients, scanning without disturbing clinical systems, or scheduling fixes for planned maintenance periods.
- Impact — results for healthcare customers: weaknesses fixed, time from discovery to fix, audit findings closed, share of devices and systems covered. Give figures from before and after the solution was in use.
The jury awards Gold, Silver or Bronze, or a Finalist badge, and results are published on this site and announced to the 600,000+ member Cybersecurity Insiders community. Every approved nomination also enters the separate Community Choice award, decided by public votes.
How to enter
A vendor or service provider can enter its own solution, or someone else can enter it, for example a PR or marketing agency acting for a client. The nomination form has a confidential field for detail that is shared with the judges and not published, such as customer names, numbers of sites, users or devices protected, or contract details. Deadlines, pricing and entry steps are on the How it Works page.
