Healthcare IT News May 1, 2024
Andrea Fox

While extortion continues to drive the work of cyber adversaries, organizations are restoring from attacks faster and making ransom payments less frequently than in years past, the data and security experts said.

In addition to analyzing client ransomware incidents and other cyberattacks, the privacy and data security specialists at BakerHostetler compared incident response statistics across industries and looked at data breach regulatory response and lawsuits.

Of all incidents Baker Hostetler analyzed, healthcare, biotech and pharma took the lion’s share at 28%.

According to the firm’s analysts, endpoint detection and response tool usage, patching and resilient backup strategies helped prevent attacks, mitigate the impacts of successful network instructions and enabled restoration without the need to pay for a decryptor.

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