Healthcare organizations lack money, tools, talent to address biggest cybersecurity threats

Third-party vendor risk and medical devices are the biggest cybersecurity threats that keep healthcare IT security executives awake at night, according to a new survey.

However, the action needed to actually address these threats is lagging, the survey found.

Forty percent of healthcare security leaders said third-party risk is the threat that concerns them the most, according to a survey from Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity firm CynergisTek. The survey aimed to identify the greatest perceived threats and current challenges healthcare organizations face in cybersecurity and privacy.