Hacking, ransomware and other cybercrimes can seem like threats to only large medical practices and hospitals until you eyeball a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report on breaches of protected health information.
In North Carolina, recent breaches of email, network servers and electronic medical records occurred at a range of large and small facilities – university medical centers, surgical practices, labs, skin centers and dentists’ offices.
Cybercrime trends reported by the North Carolina Department of Justice show information security breaches are expected to double this year from the 1,644 cases reported in 2020. And these figures are only a fraction of actual breaches – many are not reported due to legal liability and reputation concerns.
One aspect of cybersecurity that medical practices and other businesses often fail to understand is that cloud technology providers – firms that many businesses trust to help protect them from online threats – are often victims of cybercrimes themselves and their software is used to infect their clients’ systems.
So how can a medical facility best protect itself?
Click here for a white paper on this topic, but see below to get started. These recommendations may sound a little familiar to medical professionals?...
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