White Papers

Network automation has proven its ability to deliver substantial business value, yet many network teams still struggle to demonstrate visible results. Investments in device integrations and automation foundations create continuing maintenance obligations that consume the engineering capacity needed to address AI-driven threats, preserve continuity, sustain compliance, and support growth. This white paper examines the gap between the outcomes businesses want and where teams invest, and explains how to build above the value line on a maintained platform foundation. Drawing on Terracon’s experience and enterprise research, it shows how network automation can steadily accumulate measurable business value and earn continued executive support.

Connected medical devices have become one of the fastest-growing sources of cyber risk in healthcare, and the vulnerability disclosure pipeline that is supposed to help hospitals manage that risk is straining under its own volume. CVE submissions have risen 263% between 2020 and 2025, the National Vulnerability Database can no longer fully enrich records outside a narrow set of categories, and the medical device firmware and clinical middleware that biomedical engineering teams depend on for accurate scan results increasingly fall outside that coverage entirely. The result is a widening gap between what is disclosed and what hospitals can actually act on.