Diving shorts:

• More than nine of 10 health care organizations have been undergoing a cyber attack last year, and these attacks have disrupted patient care in seven of 10 organizations, writes 10 organizations. Report On Tuesday, the controlled security service provider was released and health protection was enhanced.
• The Fortified report contains aspects of the NIS cybersecurity system, where healthcare organizations have noticed the most improvements, as well as areas that continue to pose a serious risk.
• Data helps to illustrate why hospitals and other health care organizations remain the best goals of Ransomware criminals.

Diving insight:

Using health care facilities to identify and correct your maximum cyber risk, the Fortified report provides some signs of where to start.

According to the report, the five largest security of health care organizations are a lack of their unified risk management strategies, free attention to the vulnerability of the supply chain, focusing on implementing new technologies for maintaining old systems, incomplete assets and poor training of employees.

In recent years, the main cyber attacks have shown how this risk is related. Weak maintenance of the supply chain is a particularly serious problem, taking into account the nature of the healthcare ecosystem, including hospitals, pharmacies and specialized maintenance equipment. 2024. The Change Healthcare violation has shown industrial dependence on a handful of obscure but ubiquitous vendors. Outdated asset stock increases those vulnerabilities, making it harder to correct the damage to the supply chain attack. And those attacks are often referred to the old technologies that have been abandoned in favor of new products.

While ensuring old systems remains a constant challenge for healthcare organizations, Fortifieds also found that it is the highest improvement in the last year, followed by recovery improvements, response planning, staging and threat analysis.

Other areas of improvement have included leadership engagement, risk assessment maturity and identity management. The latter is particularly important, depending on the number of attacks begins to steal or fake credentials.

The Fortified report is based on its communication with clients from 2023. By 2025 June Fortified customers, all in North America, range from rural community hospitals to large academic medical centers and integrated delivery networks, a spokesman said.