4 Things You Need to Know About Health Care Cyberattacks
Health-ISAC pulled quote from the New York Times
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/health/cyber-attack-unitedhealth-hospital-patients.html
Despite the explosion in ransomware hacks like the one against Change Healthcare, regulation is spotty and few new safeguards have been proposed to protect patient data, vulnerable hospitals and medical groups.
March 29, 2024
How big is the problem?
Cybersecurity consultants and government officials have consistently identified health care as the sector of the U.S. economy most susceptible to attacks, and as much a part of the nation’s critical infrastructure as energy and water.
“The entire sector is severely under-resourced when it comes to cybersecurity and information security,” said Errol Weiss, chief security officer for the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC), which he described as a virtual neighborhood watch for the industry.
Read the article in the New York Times here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/health/cyber-attack-unitedhealth-hospital-patients.html
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