Health IT Security April 18, 2022
The majority of surveyed healthcare organizations said that they had not fully implemented software supply chain risk management policies.
Despite increased attention toward supply chain security after the 2020 SolarWinds cyberattack, 74 percent of surveyed US healthcare organizations reported not having comprehensive software supply chain risk management policies, a survey commissioned by Trellix and conducted by Vanson Bourne found.
Researchers surveyed 900 cybersecurity professionals from a variety of critical infrastructure sectors. The report pointed to President Biden’s May 2021 executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity as a catalyst for change within many US organizations.
The executive order stressed the need for zero trust security policies, multifactor authentication, endpoint detection and response (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR), and...