Mitigating Cyberattacks can be a Life-or-Death Situation

Healthcare IT Today October 25, 2024
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The following is a guest article by Mike Crouse, Director of Insider Risk at Everfox

Ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector continue to grow, with incidents nearly doubling from 2022 to 2023—a concerning figure considering their potential to leave patients in life-or-death situations. The recent ransomware attack on OneBlood, a blood center that serves hundreds of hospitals in the south, is just the latest example of a cyberattack having a real-world impact. With systems offline, the center was forced to resort to manual methods for its operations, which limited the blood supply and caused the delay of multiple complex surgeries.

The OneBlood attack comes mere months after UnitedHealth was forced to pay $22 million to a ransomware gang for an...

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