HIPAA Journal August 3, 2022

Cyberattacks on businesses have been increasing year over year across all industry sectors, and there has been an increase in cyberattacks involving third parties. From the point of view of a cyber threat actor, it makes more sense to attack a vendor such as a managed service provider, as if the attack is successful, the threat actor will be able to gain access to the networks of the company’s clients. Already in 2022, there have been several major cyberattacks on vendors used by healthcare organizations, one of which impacted 650 of the company’s HIPAA-covered entity clients.

SecureLink, a provider of access management solutions for businesses, has recently explored how businesses are managing the risk associated with providing vendors with privileged...

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