Lexology August 7, 2023
Recently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published new cybersecurity resources describing best practices for health care organizations. In its Hospital Cyber Resiliency Analysis Initiative: Landscape Analysis, HHS noted that “[t]he National Security Council (NSC) considers the [healthcare and public health] sector to be one of the top three sectors prioritized for additional cybersecurity attention” with the FBI now considering the patient and public safety risk that “cyber-attacks are posing on hospitals as ‘threat to life’ crimes.”
With this background, HHS made ten “key observations” about the state of play. Here is a refresher on those observations and what they mean.
- Directly targeted ransomware attacks aimed to disrupt clinical operations are an outsized and growing cyber threat...
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