MedCity News May 22, 2024
Katie Adams

During a fireside chat at MedCity News’ INVEST conference, Nitin Natarajan — deputy director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — shared some key ideas that people need to understand about the current state of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry. For instance, he reminded us that things won’t get better overnight, and that cybersecurity requires an all-hands-on deck approach.

Cybercriminals across the world continue to use healthcare organizations as their target practice. It seems like there is a new healthcare cybersecurity disaster dominating headlines each month — with this month’s being an attack on Ascension that forced clinicians across several states to revert to paper recordkeeping.

During a Wednesday fireside chat at MedCity News’ INVEST conference in Chicago,...

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