How to stay a step ahead of cybersecurity threats in healthcare

Healthcare organizations face an imperative to deliver patient care effectively and keep personal data secure. Patient data needs to be quickly and easily accessible to the right medical professionals, across multiple shared networks and devices, but must remain secure to ensure patient safety and privacy. The far-reaching potential impact of a data security breach — in an era of ever-increasing incidence and severity of attacks — makes healthcare network security uniquely challenging.

Some 93 percent of healthcare organizations experienced a data breach during the past three years, with 57 percent reporting more than five data breaches during the same timeframe. The healthcare industry experienced a 42 percent jump in the number of hacking incidents between 2020 and 2019, with hacking incidents responsible for 62 percent of all patient data breaches in 2020.

Attackers are drawn to the sector because of its huge amount of protected health information (PHI), which includes valuable personal data. The risk to this confidential patient information is enormous.

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