Secure Your Distributed Medical Devices with Robust Machine Identity Management
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Mon, 07/11/2022 – 16:49
Healthcare organizations are increasingly targeted by criminals
The healthcare industry continued to be one of the the most targeted sector in 2021, witnessing a 51% increase in breaches since 2019. While patient privacy has always been a common concern when it comes to healthcare organization breaches, a new study has found that cyber-attacks in the industry can have devastating effects on patient safety as well.
Many organizations have reported that healthcare ransomware attacks have resulted in longer lengths of stays in hospital and delays in procedures and tests that have resulted in poor outcomes including an increase in patient mortality. And respondents reported an increase in the number of patients being diverted to other facilities and an increase in complications from medical procedures due to ransomware attacks.
In 2020 alone, 560 healthcare facilities in the U.S. were reported as victims of ransomware attacks in 80 different incidents. These attacks resulted in:
- Large amounts of Protected Health Information (PHI) and other sensitive data…
