Hospital security teams and biomedical engineering teams, the staff who maintain clinical equipment, often compare Asimily and Cylera when they need to know which connected medical devices are on their network and which ones are risky. Both sell IoMT security software. IoMT, short for Internet of Medical Things, covers networked equipment such as infusion pumps, imaging machines, and patient monitors. Each product finds those devices, ranks their security risk, and helps the two teams decide what to patch or wall off first.
Health systems where biomedical engineering and security will fix device risks together
Organizations with no biomedical engineering owner to carry out device fixes
Hospitals that need an accurate list of connected medical devices before they can patch or segment them
Buyers that expect a full managed security operations center inside the same product
| Axis | Asimily | Cylera |
|---|---|---|
| Building a device list you can trust | Inventory coverage is part of an outcomes score of 7.3. | Stronger Inventory is its strongest mark at 7.6, aimed at hospitals that do not trust their current device list. |
| Ranking device risk | Similar Risk is weighed against how often each device is used, which feeds a product score of 7.4. |
Similar Risk is scored with clinical context so security and biomed share one view, which scores 7.5. |
| Fixing devices without disrupting care | Stronger Its remediation workflow is built around closing fixes without taking needed devices offline. |
Fixes depend on the team getting change windows and clinical uptime rules in place. |
| Industries covered | Similar Asimily also sells its platform to manufacturers, utilities, and other industries with networked equipment. |
Similar Cylera is built for hospitals that want a healthcare-specific platform. |
| Setting it up | Setup needs network visibility and an owner for each group of devices, which scores 6.8. | Stronger Setup needs network taps and clinical uptime rules, which scores 7.0. |
| Knowing what you will pay | Custom quote, often tied to device counts or sites. | Stronger Custom quote sized to device or bed count, with a first-site pilot before expansion. |
Cylera is for a hospital whose first problem is that nobody trusts its medical-device list, and that wants security and biomed working from one inventory and risk ranking. Asimily is for a health system that can staff biomed and security to close fixes together, and wants risk ranked by how each device is used so fixes can be scheduled around patient care.
Walk away from both if you run clinics with almost no connected medical devices, or if what you need is clinical login and single sign-on. Walk away from either if biomed will not take part, because both depend on biomed to patch and segment devices.