Lessons Learned and Life After a Breach in Your Healthcare Organization
Mitigate third-party ransomware risks beyond IT disaster recovery plans.
- In 2024 Change Healthcare/UHC experienced the largest healthcare breach to date, affecting hospital operations and billing and exposing patient records.
- Increased reliance on third-party vendors can introduce significant cybersecurity risks without proper evaluation and contingency plans.
- Many healthcare organizations do not have updated IT disaster recovery plans for virtual and digital connections, leaving them vulnerable to cyberattacks.
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Critical Insight
- Traditional disaster recovery plans are not focused on the virtual environment, especially with the increase in the volume of third-party vendors.
- Complex interconnected systems and applications make it challenging to identify and address vulnerabilities in complex IT environments.
- Limited budgets and resources hinder robust cybersecurity and disaster recovery implementations such as multifactor authentication (MFA) and updating outdated and unpatched systems.
Impact and Result
- Leverage Info-Tech’s insights on current healthcare cybersecurity threats, a case study of the Change Healthcare/UHC data breach, lessons learned, and how to prevent future breaches.
- Adopt a strategy to mitigate third-party ransomware risks in a virtual environment that includes vendor security risks, data flows and architecture, incident response, data governance and classification, disaster recovery, and security considerations.
- Use Info-Tech's Healthcare Business Impact Analysis Tool to estimate the impact of downtime on your organization.
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