Fouad Khalil, VP of compliance at SecurityScorecard, discusses the top costs of poor cyber risk management in healthcare, as well as the proactive steps hospitals can take in order to protect their assets and their patients.
Hospitals and other healthcare settings have long been in the crosshairs of cyber criminals because of the large amount of protected health information they maintain – a source of easy cash on the black market. Healthcare providers are also more vulnerable to disruptive cyberattacks such as ransomware, and callous criminals will bank on their victims’ desperation to pay the ransom and restore vital, often life-saving systems.
With healthcare providers around the world coming close to cracking under the pressure during challenging times, it has become even more apparent just how vulnerable healthcare infrastructure is to the risk of disruptive cyberattacks.
Unfortunately, the current crisis has done little to dissuade cyber attackers. For example, a ransomware attack recently disabled a medical research centre that was on standby to assist with working on solutions.
Exacerbating this, the network environment in a healthcare setting is complex,…
