How do you get ahead of a ransomware attack in the healthcare delivery environment? By acting, now. A quick way to organize? Look at the 405(d) group’s work, including its recently released ransomware infographic.
The Context
The news is full of headlines concerning ransomware – malware that attacks an information system and holds its data contents for ‘ransom’ until an attacker’s (typically monetary) demands are satisfied. Just ask the leaders of cities like Atlanta and Baltimore. An organization’s data has significant value, particularly when malicious actors place their focus on them. New threats to those data arise with remarkable frequency: take, for instance, the log4j vulnerability – a potentially devastating gap just discovered this month that affects a core coding foundational block used across systems globally. Indeed, just last month President Biden issued broad policy goals to combat ransomware attacks on the global stage, including state-sponsored activities.
The Healthcare Ecosystem
Through its reliance on digital information exchange, our nation’s healthcare delivery system is not excepted. It began shifting, well before the pandemic, to…
