Health care is a high-value, target-rich industry facing increasing attacks.
The Biden administration is ramping up efforts to harden defenses around the U.S. health care infrastructure, releasing an updated cyber "toolkit" to help the sectorHealth care is a high-value, target-rich industry facing increasing attacks, and the problem is increasingly being recognized as a threat to patient safety when providers are forced to divert or shut down care.
"In cyber, it's hospitals that are on the front lines," said Nick Leiserson of the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director during a roundtable with industry leaders on Wednesday.Industry cybersecurity experts have raised alarm over health care's cyber defenses, noting how often health systems had to pay ransoms or sustain massive losses after their computer systems were crippled.
Smaller health systems are often outgunned compared to larger ones, experts say. But even IT experts at large health systems find themselves confounded by a patchwork of regulations and guidance from state and federal agencies.Palm mentioned an interesting tactic HHS has also employed in aiding health systems under an attack: It's played matchmaker with peer organizations that have been attacked before.
The idea, she said, is "that they're not learning all of this from scratch in this fire drill, but that they've got sort of a peer partner that they can talk to about how they've navigated through it," Palm said.Share on linkedin
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