Top cybersecurity challenges in healthcare

PARCA eNews – May 17, 2019 – A survey commissioned by Infoblox to see what has changed in the two years since WannaCry, shows healthcare IT organizations are very confident in their ability to respond to cyber attacks.

Infoblox is a network security company specializing in DDI with its Secure Cloud-Managed Network Services. The company commissioned the survey to follow up on its survey last year to look into how healthcare organizations are adapting to protect themselves from cyber threats.

The new survey found that healthcare industry leaders have taken notice of major events such as WannaCry and have gone as far as to make cybersecurity a leading priority.  

The research revealed: 

• 92 percent of healthcare organizations are confident in their ability to repond to cyber attacks, up from 82 percent two years ago.
• 39.7 percent of IT professionals are not aware if their organizations would be willing to pay ransom, while 24 percent state unequivocally their organization would not pay a ransom
• Spending on cybersecurity has increased from between 11 to 20 percent more than they were spending in 2017
• Investment in employee education has increased by about 10 percent since 2017
• Security policies to address the growing adoption of the Internet of Things has grown, by 4 percent, and fewer respondents express doubts about these policies
• 66% of connected devices now run on Window 10, 33% on Linux and 31% on Mac OX, which grew significantly since 2017
• 26.5% still run legacy operating systems including Windows 7 and 8

The full report is available online at the Infoblox site.

Source: Infoblox Report, Cybersecurity in healthcare: What has changed two years on from WannaCry