Urology Times May 2, 2024
Anurag Lal

Cyberattacks are evolving and becoming increasingly sophisticated. In the world of health care, factors such as remote care, complex IT environments, and connected health care devices are creating new avenues for cybercriminals to target.

Bad actors are eager to exploit vulnerabilities in any and all of these areas to access lucrative patient data such as Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial information, health data and insurance information.

To combat evolving and increasingly damaging cyberthreats, health care organizations must proactively operationalize key risk mitigation strategies aimed at effectively shoring up their cyber defenses.

Unyielding attacks

Threat actors are targeting the health care sector with a barrage of different attacks. Some of the most common types of attacks include hacking, ransomware,...

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