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The cyber-threat landscape is rapidly evolving, as always, but in our recently updated  Healthcare and Cross-Sector Cybersecurity Report  we discovered the “old ways” of compromising systems still are highly effective as well. Thus, getting a foothold can be a relatively easy task – especially for those organizations that choose to be “willfully blind” to the cyber-threat. But, even when we look at organizations that have fortified their defenses, we need to keep in mind that the attacker only needs to be right once and the defender needs just to make one mistake (or, open the door just a little so that there is a point of entry). Cybersecurity as a shared responsibility Newer is not always better. As the complexity of our systems grow and more systems need to communicate with each other (which is especially true in healthcare), the challenge of good defense grows exponentially as well. Accordingly, many healthcare organizations turn to vendors for assistance. These ...

Phishing emails aimed to compromise employee credentials. Encryption used to prevent exposure of sensitive data in the event of accidental loss or theft. Ransomware, rendering hospital computers useless and access to digital medical records unavailable. These are just a few of the things health systems are battling today in an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape. More often than not, it’s patient records and sensitive data that sits at the root of all privacy and security controls being implemented. But there’s an increasing concern over network connected medical devices that is threatening one of the core missions of every health system – patient safety. Connected medical devices are becoming a key part of healthcare infrastructure, with the average hospital room containing nearly 15-20 of them. Some of these devices are still running on obsolete operating systems, while others were manufactured with significant vulnerabilities, such as embedded passwords in the software cod...