Tips for Healthcare Organizations to Prevent and Respond to Data Breaches

Cohesity Director of Strategy Josh Haley explains the technologies and strategies needed to mitigate the impact of evolving cyberattacks such as ransomware. Healthcare data breaches cost the most of any industry by far, at $9.23 million per incident between May 2020 and March 2021 a $2 million increase from the previous year, according to a report from IBM. The cost of data breaches overall is the highest it’s been in the 17-year history of the Cost of a Data Breach Report, at an average of $4.24 million per incident.

Nearly half (44 percent) of the breaches analyzed exposed consumers’ personal data, such as names, email addresses, passwords and even healthcare data representing the most common type of breached record in the report. The rapid shift to remote operations and the cloud during the COVID-19 pandemic were identified as factors that led to the surge in costs.

Healthcare organizations are becoming increasingly concerned about data breaches as cyberattacks continue to evolve. To address these concerns, Josh Haley, director of strategy for the East region at Cohesity, explained in a CDW Tech Talk the technology and strategy implementations necessary to prevent and respond to breach incidents.