COVID Brings Deadlier Edge to Healthcare Ransomware Attacks

Over the past several years, the number of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations has continued to grow. Worse, these attacks are beginning to impose direct harm on patients.

Despite the critical nature of these threats and the intense need to shut them down, healthcare IT leaders have been struggling to keep up.

Now, with COVID-19 having imposed a heavy burden on healthcare IT organizations, they seem even less certain that they can beat back ransomware. According to a new study by Ponemon Institute that was commissioned by Censinet, the number of health IT leaders who don’t feel confident that they can fight ransomware adequately is growing.