Security News > 2020 > September > Telehealth is healthcare industry’s biggest cybersecurity risk

While COVID-19 has proven the healthcare industry's overall resilience, it has also increased its cybersecurity risk with new and emerging threats.

The rapid adoption and onboarding of telehealth vendors led to a significantly increased digital footprint, attack surface, and cybersecurity risk for both provider and patient data, a new report released by SecurityScorecard and DarkOwl has shown.

There was evidence of prolific and emerging threat actors selling electronic patient healthcare data, malware toolkits that specifically target telehealth technologies, and strains of ransomware that are uniquely configured to take down healthcare IT infrastructure.

Over the past four years, SecurityScorecard has reported on the cybersecurity struggles the healthcare industry faces.

"While telehealth is an integral part of maintaining social distancing and providing patient care, it has also increased healthcare providers' digital footprint and attack surface, which we see with the increase of findings per telehealth domain, and in factors like endpoint security," said Sam Kassoumeh, COO and co-founder of SecurityScorecard.

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