What You Should Know:
- Fortified Health Security, a managed security services provider (MSSP) specializing in healthcare cybersecurity released its 2025 Horizon Report.
- The semiannual publication provides valuable insights into the latest cybersecurity trends, threats, and solutions for healthcare organizations.
2025 Horizon Report Background
The 2025 Horizon Report, a free resource for healthcare professionals since 2017, analyzes data from the Office for Civil Rights
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Healthcare Cybersecurity | Healthcare Data Security | Ransomware | Hospital Security Breaches
Healthcare Under Attack: Ransomware Groups Increasingly Target Hospitals and Clinics
What You Should Know:
- Black Kite, a provider of third-party cyber risk intelligence, has released new data revealing a disturbing trend: ransomware groups are disproportionately targeting healthcare organizations.
- The research, conducted by the Black Kite Research Intelligence Team (BRITE), identifies specific ransomware groups and their preferred targets within the healthcare sector, highlighting the urgent need for enhanced cybersecurity measures.
Top Ransomware Groups
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How Cybersecurity Breaches Affect Patient Care and Recovery
The healthcare industry has long been built on the promise of providing uninterrupted care across a vast and interconnected ecosystem. However, in recent years, the sector has faced an escalating threat—cyberattacks. Data breaches, ransomware attacks, and system vulnerabilities have emerged as major disruptors, threatening sensitive patient information and the very foundation of patient care. As healthcare providers increasingly rely on digital systems, these threats pose significant challenges
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What All Healthcare IT Leaders Must Understand About the Kaiser Permanente Breach
Of the many, many facets of healthcare-industry cybersecurity that IT leaders must be aware of, browser-side attacks and data leaks have particularly high potential to blindside an organization. Just ask leading healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente, which recently suffered a gargantuan data breach compromising the sensitive personal information of 13.4 million past and present insurance holders. The source of this breach wasn’t a nefarious attacker, although it could have been. In this case,
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Third-Party Cyberattacks: The Healthcare Sector’s Achilles’ Heel
The healthcare industry's continual digital revolution requires it to increasingly rely on third-party vendors for everything from electronic health records to telehealth platforms. While these partnerships offer undeniable benefits like improved patient care, cost savings and efficiency, they also expose healthcare organizations to third-party, or supply chain, cyberattacks.
The numbers are sobering. A recent analysis of data breaches by Security Scorecard for its Global Third-Party
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5 Cybersecurity Strategies for Remote Patient Monitoring Systems
Remote patient monitoring systems have unlocked new standards of care. They can reduce lines in hospital waiting rooms, streamline checkups and enable fast, personalized treatments for improved health outcomes. However, they also present a growing cybersecurity risk.
Cyberattacks against health care are an increasingly frequent problem — 2023 saw the highest number of data breaches and the most leaked information on record. Wearables and other remote monitoring devices may add fuel to the
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PCI DSS 4.0: A Guide to API Security for Healthcare Organizations
In recent years, several major health information exchange platforms in the United States have fallen victim to ransomware attacks. These platforms play a crucial role in U.S. healthcare infrastructure, facilitating the flow of patient records and managing payments for extensive networks of providers, including hundreds of thousands of doctors, tens of thousands of pharmacies, thousands of hospitals, and hundreds of laboratories. Some of these systems process billions of claims annually,
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Ransomware Attacks on Healthcare Services Surge in 2024
What You Should Know:
- Ransomware attacks are a growing threat across all industries, but the healthcare sector is facing a particularly alarming surge in these incidents, according to new data from SafetyDevices.
- New data reveals a concerning trend of increased attacks on healthcare providers, raising concerns about patient safety, data security, and the financial stability of healthcare organizations.
Healthcare: A Prime Target for Cybercriminals
Healthcare services are
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Healthcare Cybersecurity: Fending Off The Rise of Cyberattacks
Organizations in the healthcare sector face particularly acute cyber threats. They confront unique risks due to a range of factors — from the huge amount of sensitive data they store to the perception that they are lucrative targets for ransomware gangs. Cybercriminals recognize that there are many vulnerabilities in the healthcare sector, which has led to a surge in cyberattacks.
Data breaches and other cyberattacks on healthcare organizations aren’t just capable of inflicting a severe
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Health Catalyst Acquires Intraprise Health, Enhancing Cybersecurity Capabilities
What You Should Know:
- Health Catalyst, a provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, has announced the acquisition of Intraprise Health, a leading healthcare cybersecurity provider.
- Health Catalyst funded the acquisition with a mix of cash and stock. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2024.
Enhancing Cybersecurity in Healthcare
Intraprise Health is a leading healthcare cybersecurity company with
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