Lexology December 12, 2023
Protecting the healthcare sector from the ever-increasing cyber threat is a matter of national security. Indeed, on March 1, 2023, President Biden issued the National Cybersecurity Strategy where the President emphasized the need to defend “the systems and assets that constitute our critical infrastructure [as] vital to our national security, public safety, and economic prosperity.” Undoubtedly, the healthcare sector is central to the nation’s critical infrastructure, and it remains vulnerable to increasing cybersecurity risks. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) reports a 93% increase in large healthcare sector breaches from 2018 to 2022 with a 278% increase in reported cyber incidents involving ransomware for the same period. And the ongoing cyber threat is not expected to lighten...
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