Security News > 2021 > November > Unique Challenges to Cyber-Security in Healthcare and How to Address Them

Why is the healthcare industry particularly at risk for a cyberattack? What are the unique challenges to cybersecurity in healthcare, and how can healthcare organizations address these?

Healthcare organizations have particularly been a target of ransomware attacks, which have prompted several special warnings from the FBI and others to help protect healthcare organizations, including hospitals, from attacks.

Healthcare organizations must mandate regular and systematic cybersecurity training for all healthcare employees to ensure the end-users are trained in scrutinizing all network communications, emails, and other tactics attackers use for social engineering and phishing attacks.

Healthcare cybersecurity is also weakened due to the lack of investment in proper cybersecurity solutions and technologies to protect sensitive healthcare environments.

Healthcare organizations using Microsoft's Active Directory password policies as part of Group Policy lack robust tools to implement industry best practice standards of effective password filtering, protecting against incremental passwords, and breached password protection.

With Specops Password Policy, healthcare organizations can provide continuous breached password protection for user accounts with a push-button approach.

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