Cyber Resilience in Healthcare: Mitigating Hospital Downtime
To maintain uptime after cyberattacks, healthcare organizations require robust incident response plans, backup strategies and training such as tabletop exercises, experts say.
April 25, 2024
by Brian T. Horowitz
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Healthcare organizations must plan for network outages, possible electronic health record downtime and outages of vital medical systems if a surprise ransomware attack, such as a vishing or a man-in-the-middle attack, occurs.
Errol Weiss, chief security officer at the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC), says that organizations have shifted from simply preventing attacks to detecting and responding to them as part of a cyber resilience effort.
“It’s the monitoring, speed to action and response to mitigation,” Weiss says. “That is what matters today.”
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