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Healthcare DDoS Attacks: What You Need to Know to Best Protect Your Organization
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to plague healthcare institutions, and like a virus, these threats continually evolve as they meet resistance against their intrusions. At the most basic level, a DDoS attack is when a target network is purposely overwhelmed with a large number of requests all at once, causing denial of service. Any organization that is Internet-facing is vulnerable to a DDoS attack.DDoS attacks are not merely an inconvenience. Financial agency Fitch Ratings warned that hospitals could face repercussions from successful cyberattacks following a spate of DDoS attacks last year. Over a dozen U.S. hospitals were targeted by a Russian hacktivist group, including Jefferson Health in Pennsylvania, and Atlanticare in New Jersey.
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DDoS attacks will always be a threat because they are effective, cheap, and relatively easy to execute. Attackers are constantly evolving and refining their tactics to come up with new ways of attacking networks and disrupting organizations of all sizes and types. That’s why it is imperative that organizations shield their networks with an advanced DDoS protection solution that can continually quickly detect, react, and adapt to stay ahead of malicious attackers who target your organization and try to shut you down.
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