Ransomware

In this final article in our 3-part series on ransomware in healthcare, we discuss current trends and, more importantly, how companies of all sizes can protect themselves and the PHI they hold from this growing threat. One trend relates to how criminals are targeting their victims. Depending on how secure the target is, it may […]

In this second installment of the series, we discuss the impact of ransomware specifically on the healthcare industry. In the 15th annual Ponemon Institute “Cost of a Data Breach Report” published by IBM Security earlier this year, hundreds of breached companies and thousands of individuals were interviewed across 17 different industries and 17 countries/regions. For

This is the first in a series of articles about the rise of ransomware in the healthcare industry. This first part deals with how and why ransomware has become so prevalent.  The second part explains the reasons why ransomware attacks are so prevalent in the healthcare industry, in particular.  The third part discusses some of