A lab technician works at a computer in Beijing, China. Health care is one of the sectors most vulnerable to cyberattacks.
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Health care is one of the sectors most vulnerable to cyberattacks, with more than one in four (27 percent) health care organizations reporting that they have been a victim of a cyberattack in the past 12 months. This is more than financial institutions (20 percent) and nearly twice the incidence in the communications, media and technology sector (14 percent). Despite this, respondents from the health care industry underestimate the likelihood of a cyberattack.
As the potential impacts of cyberattacks are transboundary, no country is completely immune to this phenomenon. Ransomware attacks such as WannaCry and Petya had a global reach affecting care delivery businesses and insurers in the region. Compared to global counterparts, it takes almost five times longer to detect an intrusion for companies in Asia-Pacific.
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