Ransomware and Increased Attacks against Healthcare



The number of attacks against healthcare and hospitals continues to rise as cyber criminals and pariah nation states take advantage of the current Coronavirus crisis where hospitals in many part of the United States and around the world are distracted by large numbers of infected patients and a workforce that by and large, is now entirely remote outside of clinical care.

This was the subject of discussion for a panel of healthcare security experts today at the Washington HIMSS Chapter Meet Up.




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