Security News > 2020 > November > 2021 Healthcare Cybersecurity Priorities: Experts Weigh In

With healthcare, in particular, I think that we've seen, you know, obviously, like policy in terms of like cybersecurity policy, IT procurement policy, kind of go to the wayside in order to bolster patient health, patient care and a pandemic.

You know, not only are we saying, in healthcare an external attack surface, but absolutely, an internal attack surface increase as well.

We're seeing more security awareness around, you know, healthcare, healthcare devices what's really interesting, when, when I started really getting into healthcare security, you know, you started seeing kind of a modulation of, oh, an attack vector, a vulnerability or an exploit, married with a device risk, and, you know, something simple.

I know, you know, some people don't understand what that means you know, from a cybersecurity perspective that, you know, that means that they've actually thought about not only, you know, data privacy and data protection, as part of their, kind of, you know, their ecosystem for their product.

Know, the three ransomware groups that are targeting healthcare organizations right now and all three of those run slightly modified versions of older pieces of ransomware once they get into the network.

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