During the COVID-19 public health crisis, cyber criminals took advantage of people’s growing need for information about the pandemic to launch an increased number of attacks against healthcare providers. The exponential growth of these cyberattacks is posing a considerable threat to civil society, government institutions, and most particularly, the healthcare sector. Despite a wake-up call following the WannaCry crisis, healthcare cybersecurity still lags. As a result, in this time of emergency, cyberattacks may not only have an economic and reputational cost, they may also have an impact on human life.
To help healthcare organizations focus on the delivery of mission critical services, cyber volunteer initiatives have emerged to provide free assistance to healthcare organizations. Although this support is a welcome development, evidencing the solidarity of the cybersecurity industry, it also highlights the urgent need to safeguard the healthcare industry against cybersecurity incidents and breaches.
A Lucrative Target
In fact, the cyberattacks against healthcare providers are nothing new. The use of electronic systems to manage electronic Protected Healthcare Information (ePHI), the need for information sharing between agencies and the value of health records in the dark web are the main driving factors behind the increase of cyber-attacks against healthcare providers.
Many reports demonstrate that ransomware, configuration errors and social engineering attacks are on the rise, pl ..
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