Healthcare Global March 17, 2021
Leila Hawkins

Azi Cohen, CEO of IOT security firm CyberMDX explains why the healthcare sector so attractive to cyber attackers and what can be done to stop them

Cyber attacks in healthcare increased by 45 per cent globally towards the end of 2020 – double the rate of attacks in other sectors, with hackers taking advantage of the perfect storm of new technologies being implemented at speed and staff efforts focused on the pandemic.

Azi Cohen joined CyberMDX earlier this year having spent most of his career working to protect financial institutions. He did so because of a desire to help healthcare organisations address their security issues.

By comparison to the finance sector, healthcare organisations are often are more vulnerable to cyber...

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Topics: Cybersecurity, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, IoT (Internet of Things), Provider, Technology
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