Healthcare IT News September 8, 2021
Bill Siwicki

The advisory CISO at Akamai has some advice for IT and cybersecurity leaders – strategies to prepare for, and respond to, ransomware strikes.

By now it should come as no surprise to anyone in the industry that healthcare is the juiciest target for hackers attacking with ransomware. In a nutshell, healthcare has the most valuable data and has not fully deployed protections as robust as those in other industries.

Steve Winterfeld, advisory chief information security officer at security and content delivery network vendor Akamai, makes it his job to study ransomware in great detail. As a result of his research, he has assembled a list of dos and don’ts for healthcare provider organizations fighting ransomware.

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