Cybersecurity experts are warning that hospitals around the country are at risk for attacks like the one that iscrippling operations at a premier Midwestern children's hospital, and that the U.S. government is doing too little prevent such breaches. Hospitals in recent years have shifted their u...
Anyone who accesses a hospital’s network can easily access all the records. Worse, they can connect to ultrasound imaging devices that are vulnerable to attacks because they use ancient software. Once you breach the network, getting access to details images and other details become very easy. I...
Recent high-profile ransomware attacks on hospitals have once again demonstrated the vital importance of securing healthcare IT infrastructures. When cyberattacks have the potential to cause morbidity and even loss of life, it’s absolutely imperative to understand and mitigate vulnerabilities in the tec...
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A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack uses a large number of connected devices controlled by an attacker, to overwhelm a website’s resources with fake traffic. Because of the massive scale of today’s DDoS attacks, a common protective measure is a cloud-basedDDoS mitigation service. ...
Based on past client engagements and by staying up to date with the latest in the industry, there are five cyber security concerns that we've found to be the most pressing for healthcare organizations today: Ransomware attacks Third-party vendor risks Legacy systems and technology HIPAA ...
Healthcare sector will focus more on cyber-resilience, hygiene Cyber-resilienceremains a key focus area for healthcare organizations going into the new year as cyberattacks continue to disrupt operations andsupply chains. "In 2025, resilience in healthcare cybersecurity will continue to evolve from...
Check Point has published its 2021 Security Report. Each year, the company shows how cyber criminals exploited the previous year to target industry sectors across the globe. Among the primary highlights of this year’s report is the fast-growing trend of cyber ...
IT outages from cyberattacks are particularly worrisome if attackers focus on those medical IT devices that are critical for medical processes. However, medical processes are primarily documented for the hospital employees and not for analyzing the criticality of any given human or medical IT resource...
Cyberattacks on healthcare providers are a $13.2 billion market for hackers, turning the healthcare sector into a veritable goldmine. 1/2 Amount of attacks used preventable disruptions (e.g., electronic system downtime, scheduling cancellations, & ambulance diversions) OT versus IT: What you ne...