DOTmed November 28, 2021
In the last 18 months, 82% of healthcare providers has experienced some form of an IoT cyberattack. Of this, 34% were hit with ransomware, according to a paper by data security firm Medigate and cloud-based protection provider CrowdStrike.
Among the trends that the study – titled “Healthcare IoT Security Operations Maturity — A Rationalized Approach to a New Normal” – observed, ransomware attacks became increasingly more common and of those who experienced one, 33% paid the ransom, but only 69% reported that doing so led to the full restoration of their data.
This and other findings indicate the need for healthcare delivery organizations to boost their security infrastructures by incorporating more basic defense. Among these are cyber-insurance considerations and addressing...
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