Critical Care, Critical Risks: How to Secure Complex Healthcare Environments
The following is a guest article by Mohammad Waqas, CTO for Healthcare at Armis
When it comes to critical infrastructure protection, there is arguably no sector more vital than healthcare – lives are on the line. Unfortunately, the healthcare industry has been afflicted with a ransomware epidemic that has lasted more than half a decade.
In 2023 alone, healthcare organizations saw a consistent month-over-month increase in attack attempts of 13%. One of the most recent cases was a ransomware attack against national health system Ascension. This interrupted electronic health records (EHR) and other systems so severely that staff had to switch to “manual and paper-based” processes, while emergency room patients had to be sent to other hospitals, and non-emergency appointments were rescheduled.