News January 16, 2023

Third-Party Risk Contributes to Healthcare Data Breaches

4 min read - Since 2009, the number of individuals affected by health data breaches in the U.S. has exceeded the country’s population of 331.9 million. As per federal statistics, this means many people have been victims of more than one incident. Unfortunately, the…

Zero Trust August 17, 2022

Healthcare Breaches Costliest for 12 Years Running, Hit New $10.1M Record High

8 min read - IBM Security and the Ponemon institute release an annual report known as one the most significant industry benchmarks. The Cost of a Data Breach analysis examines real-world breaches in great detail, producing insights into the factors that impact the cost…

Healthcare August 11, 2022

Incident Response for Health Care IT: Differences and Drivers

4 min read - Threat actors continue to target the health care industry. IBM’s Threat Intelligence Index for 2022 rates the industry as the sixth most targeted. That puts it close behind the energy and retail and wholesale sectors. Certain regions seem to be…

CISO December 7, 2021

Understanding the Cyber Risk Exposures Within the Health Care Industry

4 min read - The health care industry is one of the most popular and lucrative targets for cyberattacks and malicious activity. Health care organizations always present as an attractive proposition to hackers as they possess high volumes of sensitive information about patients and…

Data Protection November 24, 2021

Hospital Ransomware Attacks Go Beyond Health Care Data

4 min read - The health care industry has been on the front lines a lot lately. Along with helping control the effects of COVID-19, it has been a prime target for ransomware. In a 2021 survey conducted of 597 health delivery organizations (HDOs),…

Data Protection October 13, 2021

What Is the True Cost of a Health Care Data Breach?

4 min read - The health care industry has remained the top data breach target for eleven years in a row. Highly sensitive and personally identifiable information (PII) held by health care systems is an attractive target. After all, it contains all the information…

Zero Trust July 28, 2021

What’s New in the 2021 Cost of a Data Breach Report

5 min read - Has cybersecurity ever been more important than it is right now? Even in these extraordinary times, with its focus on manufacturing vaccines and getting shots into arms, new research in the Cost of a Data Breach Report shows that the…

Data Protection May 6, 2021

Health Care Data: It’s Your Personal ‘National Security’ Information

6 min read - If you wanted to put all the pieces of a person’s profile together, health care data would likely be the most important piece of the personally identifiable information (PII) puzzle. It’s powerful. A heartbeat can open a door. This data…

Software Vulnerabilities April 23, 2021

Health Care Ransomware Strains Have Hospitals in the Crosshairs

5 min read - The language of digital attacks shares a lot with the language of disease: ‘viruses’ ‘infect’ computers, and stopping their spread can be like trying to keep down a contagious disease. The two worlds also come together when threat actors attack…

Intelligence & Analytics March 22, 2021

Health Care Cybersecurity: Costly Data Breaches, Ensuring PII Security and Beyond

4 min read - As hospitals get smarter, threat actors have more routes inside. IBM’s recent research on the health care industry shows how smart tools, which could be very valuable for today’s medical facilities, also need healing of their own. What should hospital…