BankInfoSecurity December 19, 2022
Move Infrastructure to the Cloud and Hone Incident Response Plans, Experts Say
To avoid having to even consider paying a ransom, experts have long urged all organizations to put better defenses in place, and the healthcare sector is no exception.
To put that another way: Despite the number of successful attacks doubling in the past four years, healthcare systems can be protected from ransomware attacks. Bill Siegel, co-founder and CEO of ransomware incident response firm Coveware, says an ideal strategy is to move from on-premises servers and backups to the cloud. Doing so outsources availability, uptime and security to the SaaS vendor and also facilitates better backup and recovery if something does happen.
“It’s just a question of resources,” Siegel...