Access to an essential service like healthcare is intertwined with cybersecurity in the digital age. Disruptive cyberattacks against the (...)
Recent cyberattacks in the healthcare sector have led to significant disruptions. Over the past few months, reports have emerged ofambulancesbeing rerouted,phone systemsand email access being shut down, appointments andsurgeriesbeing postponed, emergency patients being redirected to different facilities, ...
In 2021, aWorld Economic Forum blogexamined the COVID-era spike in health care sector cyber attacks, noting the over 10 million records stolen over the course of a little over a year. The pandemic is over (for now), but the mercury in the cyber thermometer is still rising as recent att...
In addition, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has just published its first study oncyberattacks against the healthcare sectorand its threats. Below, we will analyze the critical aspects of cyber-attacks against the healthcare sector and highlight the need for organizations operat...
The healthcare sector isn’t sufficiently prepared for the recent surge in cyberattacks. Many healthcare organizations operate in outdated digital infrastructures that are easy to breach. Threat actors target these organizations to get medical records, transactions, or any other data they can sell or...
Healthcare cyberattacks often result indata breaches, affecting the privacy of patients. However, as recent healthcare cyberincidents have shown, operational disruptions are also common when an organization is targeted by cyberthreat actors. In late July and early August 2024, the health...
Ransomware attacks area growing threat amongst healthcare providersaccording to an analysis last year.More than 1 in 3 healthcare organizationsglobally fell victim to a ransomware attack in 2020. The reason for its prevalence is that hackers understand how critical it is for the healthcare sector ...
CYBERSECURITY IN THE DENTAL HEALTHCARE SECTOR: THE NEED OF KNOWLEDGE FOR SMALL PRACTITIONERSMelon, ElielHernandez, WilneliaIssues in Information Systems
There is no question the attacks we’ve seen in recent months are creating energy for action across the health sector. The Paris Call remains the largest multi-stakeholder coalition addressing these issues, and its first principle is the prevention of malicious cyber activities that threaten ...
Publicly disclosed global cyber security breaches between January and September last year showed that the healthcare sector suffered more attacks (241) than any other sector, ahead of government (147), and information technology including software, hardware and IT services (91), according to research...