Healthcare IT News February 10, 2025
As cyberthreats against healthcare surge, a new EU cybersecurity Action Plan emphasises proactive defense, enhanced training, and collective responsibility to safeguard patient care and medical infrastructure.
With the increasing digital transformation of healthcare and improvements in the quality of data, IT systems in healthcare are becoming an increasingly attractive target for malicious actors. A cyberattack can cripple an institution, cause disruptions in service delivery and result in patient harm.
Major threats for healthcare organisations include ransomware, breaches caused by cloud vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, bad bot traffic and phishing. Ransomware accounts for 54% of all breaches in healthcare, costing healthcare organisations an average of EUR 300,000 per incident, according to The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). With the incorporation of...
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