Ransomware, supply chain attacks compel health care organizations to act

March 9, 2021 – Article posted on SC Magazine

If ransomware and data exfiltration attacks that targeted hospitals and vaccine researchers during the pandemic signaled a cyber hygiene crisis in health care, the SolarWinds supply chain attack demonstrated just how deep the problem goes.

After all, health care facilities are especially reliant upon third-party software and medical devices to operate on a day-to-day basis, but also save lives. Yet the more partners a facility uses, the greater the risk of a system breach or attack…

…In the wake of the SolarWinds incident, an increasing number of health care institutions are embarking on threat-hunting missions to seek and destroy exploitable vulnerabilities across third-party applications…

SC Magazine sits down with GuidePoint Security’s head of threat intelligence, Tony Cook, for an in-depth discussion about this threat-hunting trend among health care institutions.

Read more HERE.