Mitigating risk as healthcare supply chain attacks prevail

A focus on cyber resilience is essential for mitigating the risk of healthcare supply chain attacks, which have the potential to cause widespread disruptions.
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Healthcare supply chain attacks have the potential to disrupt care and operations across the healthcare system through just one successful infiltration. The single points of failure that exist across the sector make the risk of supply chain attacks even greater.
“The bad guys have figured out that if they can hit this small supplier who’s a single-source supplier in a particular region, they could cause a lot of impact to the healthcare sector more broadly and maximize their payoffs downstream,” said Errol Weiss, chief security officer of the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC).”It’s definitely different from what we were seeing before.”
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