Ransomeware Can Be a Life or Death Situation in Healthcare and Covid Makes Fighting it Even Harder

Over the past 18 months, Censinet witnessed a significant rise in the number of Healthcare Delivery Organizations (HDOs) coming to the company after ransomware attacks and other cybersecurity incidents. Even though the company works with HDOs across the country to identify, analyze, and manage risk across healthcare IT, supply chain, institutional review boards, and more, it saw an unusual pattern of attacks and wanted to look more deeply into contributing factors.