Healthcare IT News April 2, 2025
Improving cybersecurity despite resource challenges requires small healthcare providers to pull many support levers. “We need to move away from the idea that each rural hospital is solving these issues alone,” says one infosec leader.
Small and rural hospitals are seeking strategies to find their way through the dangerous surge of healthcare cyberattacks. It’s a challenge for many of them.
For instance, most of the 550 or so rural hospitals working with Microsoft on cybersecurity training have struggled to maintain basic cyber hygiene practices, such as multi-factor authentication and timely patching of known vulnerabilities, the company noted last month.
Smaller hospitals have unique sets of challenges and generally have fewer...
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