American Hospital Association May 11, 2022
Cybersecurity authorities in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States today urged companies that deliver, operate or manage information and communications technology services and their customers to implement certain best practices to secure sensitive data, citing a recent increase in malicious cyber activity targeting these Managed Service Providers to gain access to customers’ networks.
John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk, said, “Sophisticated cyber actors continue to target strategic nodes within health care and other sectors to gain broad access to individual organizations. Think of this as the ‘hub and spoke’ targeting strategy. If they gain access to the ‘hub’ (MSP) they...