3 Ways to Prevent Cyber Attacks and Improve Healthcare Outcomes

By Cindi Carter, CISO in the Office of the CTO at Check Point Software Technologies Earlier this month, a ransomware attack shut down emergency rooms across the United States, forcing ambulances to route to other hospitals. Prospect Medical Group, which operates 16 hospitals and 166 outpatient clinics across Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas, took their systems offline to protect them while they launched an investigation. According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023, the healthcare industry reported the most expensive data breaches at an average cost of $10.93M. But in healthcare, cyber attacks can have ramifications beyond […]

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