Health IT Security February 3, 2023
More than 98 percent of analyzed healthcare organizations have a relationship with at least one breached third-party vendor, a new report shows.
The recent rise in third-party data breaches warrants a reevaluation of third- and fourth-party vendor relationships, new data from SecurityScorecard and the Cyentia Institute suggested. As previously reported, the majority of the top ten largest healthcare data breaches reported to HHS in 2022 stemmed from third-party vendors.
The problem is not specific to healthcare — SecurityScorecard and the Cyentia Institute analyzed data from more than 230,000 organizations from all sectors and found that 98 percent of organizations have a relationship with at least one third party that has experienced a breach in the last two years.
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