Growing Cyberthreats in the Healthcare industry
The healthcare industry is at risk
Organizations are becoming increasingly susceptible to online attacks resulting in loss of revenue and reputation of an organization. In 2020, hacking and IT incidents were responsible for 69% of all healthcare breaches in the United State. Thousands of healthcare organizations have been targeted by cybersecurity threats in the last few years, with hospitals accounting for 30% of all large-scale data security incidents.
Top Cyber Treats in Healthcare Industry
1. Ransomware - Ransomware is the most common attack vector for cybercriminals. Here are some of the popular methods used by attacker to introduce ransomware.
- Spam : To gain access, threat actors use spam, where they send an email with a malicious attachment to as many people as possible, seeing who opens the attachment and "takes the bait,"
- Online Advertising : Another popular infection method is the use of online advertising to distribute malware with little to no user interaction required. While browsing the web, even legitimate sites, users can be directed to criminal servers without ever clicking on an ad. These servers catalogue details about victim computers and their locations, and then select the malware best suited to deliver
- Spear Phishing : The attacker pretends to be someone of authority or power within the medical facility, like the CEO or Vice President, the tactic involves attackers using spoofed emails or compromised accounts to persuade employees to transfer large sums of money to fraudulent accounts. Example: A cybercriminal impersonates a business email account through domain spoofing, e.g., john.smith@piedpiper.com (the email address of John Smith, a legitimate employee at Pied Piper) → john.smith@peidpiper.com (the cybercriminal's spoofed email address)
2. Insider Threats - Ransomware is the most common attack vector for cybercriminals. Here are some of the popular methods used by attacker to introduce ransomware.
- The Malicious Insider: Malicious Insiders knowingly and intentionally steal data. For example, an employee or contractor may exfiltrate valuable information (like Intellectual Property (IP), Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or financial information).
- The Negligent Insider : Negligent insiders are just your average employees who have made a mistake. For example, an employee could send an email containing sensitive information to the wrong person, email company data to personal accounts to do some work over the weekend, fall victim to a phishing or spear-phishing attack, or lose their work device.
Protecting your Enterprise from Cyber Threats
Educating Users - With remote work and telehealth becoming more available, it’s important for healthcare organizations to provide training employees on best cyber security practices, increase awareness of the employees conducting awareness programs on Dos and Don’ts
Security Best Practices - Follow the industry standard best-practices to secure your enterprise, cloud, and SaaS platforms.
Cybersecurity Tools & Systems - Invest in AI & ML driven cybersecurity tools, which are designed to provide real-time protection & Proactively Threat Hunt to thwart advanced cyber security attacks.
How Proinf will help you protect from Cyber Threats --
Proinf’s Professional Services - Proinf’s Team of Professionals help you make smarter technology decisions, increase ROI, and continuously improve availability, performance, and quality of your services.
- IT Infrastructure Assessment and Gap Analysis – Assess the IT Infrastructure systems, on-prem, cloud and SaaS platforms to identify open vulnerabilities, attack surface visible to external world. Assess the configuration and setup of firewall against industry standard security benchmarks. Provide you an as-is-view. Propose recommendations, tools & best-practices to, fix vulnerabilities and enhance overall security
- Migration & upgrade – Plan and execute hardware refreshes & upgrades, move from end-of-life, end-of-support system to latest version which will sustain your future growth and capacity enhancement requirements.
- Planning & Implementation - With remote work and telehealth becoming more available, it’s important for healthcare organizations to provide training employees on best cyber security practices, increase awareness of the employees on Dos and Don’ts
EDR2 - With remote work and telehealth becoming more available, it’s important for healthcare organizations to gain visibility across their entire technology ecosystem, (endpoints, servers, network, security, cloud, SaaS services) with automation and enforcement at every control point. Our EDR solution will Fortify, Automate and Extend protection from the end point to beyond with unfettered visibility. Proven Protection with unparalleled response.
Ways to prevent Cyber Attacks
- Machine speed Mitigation - Automated Resolution & Response - Defeat high velocity threats in real time by automating and orchestrating. Minimize time to contain threats. Immediate Resolution across Different Domains – Resolve threats automatically, with 1-click, several or all devices across the enterprise
- Eliminate Blind Spots - End-to-End Enterprise Visibility - Find threats and with autonomous, real time, and index-free threat ingestion & analysis that supports structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data.
- One Platform – One platform and one workflow for EPP, EDR, Firewall, Device control, Kill, Quarantine, Isolation, App Inventory, Integrations and network visibility and control. Reduced Complexity – More efficient with one source of prioritized alerts, data ingestion & standardization, one consolidated view to understand attack progression across security layers, and one platform to respond faster.
