Medical devices on their own island.

The medical-device problem is a network problem.

Most medical devices were designed without security as a first-class concern — and many of them can't be patched on your schedule because they're FDA-cleared as-is. The result: a typical clinic carries dozens of device classes that must coexist on the same physical network with clinician workstations, guest Wi-Fi, VoIP phones, and the EHR itself.

The solution isn't "buy a better infusion pump." It's architecture: dynamic VLAN assignment at the switch port, role-based policy at the firewall, and zero east-west trust inside the data center. When an unpatchable device gets compromised, the blast radius is one VLAN — not the whole clinic.

Netcom designs healthcare networks around three anchors. Segmentation by device class (not just by location). Clinician mobility via Zero Trust access (no VPN). And QoS that guarantees EHR and imaging get the pipe they need while guest Wi-Fi is rate-limited and isolated. Cutover always happens in reversible windows — the night before is never more important than the morning clinic.