The healthcare industry is being targeted by cyber threats at an increasingly alarming rate. For the first half of 2015, healthcare ranked #1 in terms of notable incidents of records compromised, with nearly 34 percent of all records compromised across all industries. Once trumped significantly in terms of breaches and malicious attacks by other sectors such as financial and retail, healthcare is no longer on the sidelines. Bringing them front and center are the five of the eight largest security breaches affecting this industry in the last five years.
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Join Michelle Alvarez, a Threat Researcher and Editor for IBM Managed Security Services, to discuss the factors and implications of this recent surge in hacks against healthcare institutions, as well as steps organizations can take to help protect their valuable data including:
- Why personal health information records bring the highest price on the black market
- What types of attacks most commonly used against healthcare organizations
- How organizations can shore up their defenses