Health IT Security February 25, 2020
Healthcare providers received the worst marks for controlling data ROT, or redundant, obsolete, and trivial files, as well as data sharing controls and security, among all other sectors.
The majority of healthcare providers are overconfident in their ability to control data sharing and the security of their data storage, according to a new report from Netwrix.
Netwrix surveyed 1,045 global IT professionals from a wide range of sectors, including healthcare, to get a sense of how organizations treat data during its lifecycle and identify security gaps that could potentially put sensitive data at risk.
Researchers discovered some damning findings from the healthcare sector, such as a widespread and false sense of security. Fifty-two percent of healthcare organizations said they were...