Healthcare is an ‘easy victim’ for ransomware attacks. How hospitals can mitigate the damage.

Cybersecurity personnel may also be hard for hospitals to find, said Errol Weiss, chief security officer at the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or Health-ISAC. Cybersecurity professionals are in short supply across the globe, and health systems are competing with other sectors for talent, including ones that might be able to pay workers more.

“We’re not training enough people, we’re not graduating enough people through college courses in cybersecurity,” Weiss said. “And the number of jobs that we need them in is ever increasing.”

Link to the full article in Healthcare Dive here:

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/how-hospitals-can-mitigate-ransomware-attacks-healthcare/719751/#:~:text=How%20hospitals%20can%20protect%20themselves,protecting%20hospitals%2C%20according%20to%20Lee.

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