Cybersecurity has become an increasingly important topic among healthcare executives.
Here are 10 facts about cybersecurity in the healthcare sector dental leaders should know:
1. The top three healthcare cybersecurity vulnerabilities are third-party data breaches, cloud breaches and Internet of Things attacks.
2. There have been several recent warnings of ransomware groups targeting the healthcare industry, including Royal, BlackCat and LockBit 3.0.
3. Research from Netskope, a cybersecurity company, found that 400 cloud applications delivered malware in 2022.
4. The most security-conscious states include California, Nevada and Oregon.
5. Sixty-one percent of healthcare organizations said in October they had suffered a cyberattack on their cloud infrastructure in the past year, and the majority said these IT incidents hurt them financially.
6. The healthcare sector was hit with about 25 percent of ransomware attacks in 2022.
7. About 3.4 million more workers are needed worldwide to protect against growing cyber threats, including 410,695 in the U.S.
8. The riskiest states for malware attacks include South Dakota and Kansas.
9. A quarter of healthcare data leaks were intentionally caused by employees, according to a global survey of 1,300 health IT professionals in August by software company Soti.
10. The HHS Office for Civil Rights data breach portal showed there were 337 healthcare data breaches impacting more than 500 individuals each in the first half of 2022.