GAO Urges HHS to Increase Oversight of Ransomware Practices
Health IT Security February 16, 2024
GAO recommended that HHS work with CISA to develop evaluation processes to assess the effectiveness of federal support in helping the sector reduce ransomware risk.
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued recommendations to HHS surrounding its oversight of ransomware practices across the sector in a recent report. The report assessed four federal agencies, including HHS, to evaluate each agency’s efforts to oversee sector adoption of leading cybersecurity practices.
GAO chose to focus on four critical infrastructure sectors in particular – critical manufacturing, energy, healthcare and public health, and transportation systems – due to the fact that half of the cyber incidents tracked by the FBI in 2022 impacted these four sectors.
“The four selected sectors’ adoption of leading practices...