Ransomware attacks on multiple hospitals blocking staff access to vital systems and taking weeks to clear up, a cyber attack that wreaked havoc on meal delivery and pathology results, an unencrypted drive with almost 30,000 patient records on it goes missing…all in the first three months of 2016.
It’s a tough diagnosis to accept, but the FBI’s finding that the healthcare industry “Is not technically prepared to combat against cyber criminals’ basic cyber intrusion tactics, techniques and procedures, much less against more advanced persistent threats” is borne out by the evidence, with barely a week in 2016 passing without news of a data breach or cyber attack on a healthcare organization somewhere around the world.