Healthcare IT News April 17, 2023
At the HIMSS23 Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, Nitin Natarajan, deputy director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said protecting against escalating cyberattacks is a “joint effort” between government and the private sector.
CHICAGO – Speaking to a full house at the HIMSS23 Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Monday morning, Deputy Director Nitin Natarajan of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency noted that even a few years ago it would have been hard to gather a crowd that size to talk about cybersecurity.
But the events of the past few years, with ransomware debilitating hospitals and health systems around the world and cyberattacks increasing in “frequency, severity and sophistication,” have helped focus the healthcare industry’s attention on a fundamental security challenge –...