Protecting Healthcare Identity from Modern Cyber Attacks

Executives in the healthcare industry know they have a problem protecting the identity information of all the moving parts in the U.S. health system – a problem driven home by the $65 million settlement a Pennsylvania provider will pay after it refused to pay more than $5 million to end a ransomware attack, In response, the hackers posted nude photos of patients taken as they underwent treatment.

The FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report stated that healthcare and public health, one of our country’s 16 critical infrastructure sectors, suffered the highest number of ransomware attacks, accounting for almost 21% of attacks reported. And there are plenty more statistics demonstrating that the healthcare sector is struggling with protecting the identity information of everyone in the field, including patients.

Learning Objectives:

• Review the types of cyber attacks to which health agencies are most vulnerable, including phishing[/fusion_li_item
• Identify the weaknesses in your agency’s systems that should be prioritized for remediation[/fusion_li_item
• Understand the steps to securing and automating identity management for everyone that touches your networks