MDJOnline.com March 5, 2020
CHICAGO, — Keeper Security, provider of the leading cybersecurity platform for preventing password-related data breaches and cyberthreats, today revealed that nearly two-thirds of healthcare organizations globally have experienced a cyberattack in their lifetime, while 53% were attacked within the last 12 months.
These findings derived from Keeper’s 2019 Global State of Cybersecurity in Small and Medium-Sized Businesses report, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, which surveyed 2,391 IT and IT security practitioners in the U.S., U.K., DACH, Benelux and Scandinavia, including 219 from the healthcare industry.
“Electronic health records are some of the most lucrative documents on the dark web, so it’s not surprising that the healthcare industry is highly-targeted by cybercriminals,” said Darren Guccione, CEO and Co-Founder of Keeper. “While...