Hacker Noon August 23, 2021
According to an IBM report, one data breach incident costs medical institutes an average of $7.13 million. Ransomware cost the healthcare industry approximately $21 billion in 2020!
But apart from financial loss, cyberattacks on the medical industry cause unaccountable damages such as the risk of patients’ lives in the event of transferring the emergency cases to other hospitals, postponing critical operations, and canceling important appointments.
One of the most popular methods hackers use is exploiting the internet of medical things, or IoMT, devices and medical instruments to deploy the attacks.
In this article, we will discuss why IoT becomes the weakest link in the overall cyber defenses in the healthcare field.
1) Age of the IoMT Devices
Large and expensive...
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