HealthExec June 7, 2024
Chad Van Alstin

HHS’s Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has posted an analysis note detailing how healthcare systems should respond to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The document, released May 30, provides updated best practices for how organizations can thwart these threats and get their networks back up and running.

DDoS attacks are common across all industries and can impact entities of any size. They occur when cybercriminals send artificial traffic to a network’s systems, such as a hospital website, to overload and halt online operations.

“With the number of attacks increasing every year, they can come at any time, impact any part of a website’s operations or resources, and lead to massive amounts of service interruptions and huge financial losses. In...

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