Read on to:
- See why one unpatchable device can put other systems on a hospital network at risk
- Learn how Frost & Sullivan narrowed more than 50 vendors down to 15
- Find out what the analysts wrote about ORDR's direction
- Discover how ORDR acts on device data
- Get five questions to ask any healthcare device security vendor
Legacy Clinical Devices Leave Hospitals Few Safe Options
Picture an infusion pump on a medication floor. Its operating system reached end of support years ago, and its manufacturer controls every software change. Your security team cannot install security software (an endpoint agent) on it.
Franciscan Health manages about 96,000 connected endpoints across 14 hospitals and more than 350 facilities. Some of its medical systems were 15 years old and still ran embedded operating systems that couldn't be upgraded because of manufacturer requirements. ORDR helped the health system discover, classify, and monitor those devices so its security team could understand risk without disrupting clinical operations.
Constraint | What It Means for Your Security Team |
No Support for Security Agents | Endpoint security tools cannot see or protect the device |
Manufacturer-Controlled Patches | Known vulnerabilities stay open until the vendor releases a validated fix |
Continuous Clinical Use | Your team must schedule every patch around patient care |
Broad Network Access | A compromised device can reach other systems on the network |
Each new cloud service, connected medical device, and care site gives attackers another way in. Frost & Sullivan's 2026 report evaluates the vendors that protect this expanding environment.
Frost & Sullivan Benchmarked 15 Vendors on Two Indexes
Frost & Sullivan identified more than 50 qualified participants in U.S. healthcare infrastructure cybersecurity and selected 15 for the final study. Analysts scored each company on a Growth Index and an Innovation Index, then plotted every company on the Frost Radar™.
Index | What It Measures | Criteria |
Growth Index | A company’s growth record and its ability to execute a growth strategy and vision | Market share (previous 3 years); revenue growth (previous 3 years); growth pipeline; vision and strategy; sales and marketing |
Innovation Index | A company’s ability to build products that fit customers’ changing needs | Innovation scalability; research and development; product portfolio; megatrends leverage; customer alignment |
Frost & Sullivan's analysts emphasize integrated platforms that combine several security functions in one product.
ORDR's Frost Radar Profile: AI-Enabled Security and IT Operations
Frost & Sullivan describes ORDR as a company that has progressed from connected-device visibility to AI-enabled security and IT operations. ORDR launched ORDR IQ in November 2024, and the analysts credit it with four workflows.
Workflow | What It Does for Your Team |
Anomaly Detection | Flags devices that drift from their normal communication patterns |
Segmentation Planning | Maps which devices talk to each other, so you can design access rules around real traffic |
Policy Generation | Drafts access policies from observed device behavior |
Response Workflows | Turns device data, traffic flows, and vulnerabilities into triage summaries in seconds |
ORDR's Three Products Share One Source of Device Data
Each ORDR product builds on the same device data, so your security, IT, and facilities teams work from a single source of truth.
Product | Role | Outcome for Healthcare Teams |
AI Protect for Security | Discovers and classifies every connected device across IT, Internet of Things (IoT), operational technology (OT), and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) environments | Puts medical equipment that endpoint tools miss into your inventory |
AI Protect for Segmentation | Turns device intelligence into network-wide and device-level access rules (macro- and micro-segmentation) | Keeps a compromised device from reaching the rest of the network |
ORDR IQ | Answers questions about device data in plain, natural language | Lets staff outside the security team pull the device information they need |
ORDR has classified more than 100 million devices and offers more than 130 integrations with security, IT, and clinical systems.
Patient Care: Five Questions to Ask Any Device Security Vendor
Use these five questions to test whether a platform can protect devices like the infusion pump above without pulling them out of service.
Question to Ask | How ORDR Answers |
Can You Find Devices Without Installing Agents? | Yes. ORDR discovers devices through passive monitoring, with no agents or scans. |
How Fast Do You Reach Full Visibility? | ORDR reaches full visibility 24 to 48 hours after deployment. |
Can You Test a Policy Before You Enforce It? | Yes. ORDR simulates each policy against live traffic first. |
Do You Need New Network Hardware? | No. ORDR enforces policy through your existing firewalls, network access control (NAC) tools, and switches. |
How Long Does It Take to Enforce Segmentation Policies? | ORDR deploys segmentation policies in days or weeks. |
Frost & Sullivan's analysts recognized ORDR for its progress from device visibility to AI-enabled security and IT operations. Your team can act on device risk while clinicians keep treating patients. ORDR calls the approach security that acts.