Healthcare organizations should treat cybersecurity as a living process

It is now very clear that, complacency in risk mitigation is dangerous, as the WannaCry ransomware attack sadly revealed.

In effect, ‘’Healthcare organizations should treat cybersecurity as a living process, rather than as a static checklist, especially when considering new technology adoption. Connected medical devices and hospital equipment increasingly form part of care provisioning, and are highly vulnerable to cyberattacks. This is even more critical as basic IT cybersecurity seems to be dangerously unattended in the industry. Ransomware will continue to be a popular cyberattack, attracting an ever-growing number of malicious actors, keen to cash-in on the vulnerabilities riddling healthcare organizations,” says Michela Menting, Research Director at ABI Research.