“Protecting healthcare data is essential, but cybersecurity experts say it is one of the hardest industries to protect due to its larger attack surface – and the fact that lives are at risk.”
“At a FedInsider event on April 12, Federal government and industry experts talked about the critical need to protect the healthcare sector, and how difficult that task is evidenced by more than 40 million individuals’ health records being exposed just last year.”
“’The most important thing I think that resonates with most people is that healthcare has sort of a wider attack surface, between medical devices, medical systems, Internet of Things, the urgent nature of most health care decisions – it’s really easy for attackers to insert themselves into that ecosystem and to create havoc and to find weaknesses,’ said John Murphy, global field chief security officer and CISO at Rubrik Inc…”
“What’s more, the healthcare industry’s large attack surface only increased during the pandemic once employees started working from home, according to La Monte Yarborough, the acting chief information security officer at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)…” Read the full article here.
Source: Experts Detail Defending Expanded Healthcare Attack Surfaces – By Grace Dille, April 13, 2022. MeriTalk.
