7 ways practice administrators can foil cyberthreats
Boost your medical practice’s cybersecurity with seven proven administrator‑led strategies that shield patient data, block ransomware and keep operations running smoothly.
Small and midsized physician groups sit squarely in the cyber‑crooks’ crosshairs. Health records fetch top dollar on the dark web, and their owners pay dearly when defenses fail: the average health‑care breach topped $10 million per incident in 2022, the steepest price tag of any industry. Attack frequency is growing just as fast — businesses now face more than 1,100 intrusion attempts every week.
While the headlines focus on mega‑systems, independent practices and ambulatory networks suffer the same ransomware crews, phishing swarms and vendor breaches — often with a fraction of the IT budget. Yet administrators can still outmaneuver threat actors. The following seven tactics give any practice a realistic roadmap to harden defenses without derailing patient care.
Cybersecurity breach reports low during the pandemic
September 7th 2020A new report from CI Security suggests cybersecurity breaches were lower during healthcare's rapid transition to virtual care throughout the pandemic. In this episode of Perspectives, we look at why this might be and other aspects of their report with CI Security's Healthcare Executive Strategist, Drex DeFord.
