Five regional hospitals in Ontario, Canada, rescheduled appointments and diverted non-emergency patients after a cyber attack disrupted a shared service provider.
Attacks against healthcare institutions have become more prevalent. Driving this are several factors, including the dramatic drop in the value of stolen credit card data and the relative ease with which attackers can breach healthcare institutions.
For an industry, as highly exposed as the healthcare industry, Artificial Intelligence seems promising for data protection. How can it be used for securing sensitive data to ensure compliance to standards such as HIPAA?
With many security communities providing information sharing, how should cybersecurity professionals in the healthcare industry choose to ensure their community time is well-spent?
