Data Breaches Force Healthcare to Invest in More Cyber Defenses
In the 2015 Anthem data breach, the compromise of an adminstrator’s credentials was the initial entry point that caused the breach and exposure of 13.5 million patient records. High-profile, high-impact breaches like this are spurring healthcare enterprises to institute more cybersecurity defenses and to monitor the insider threat.
According to the 2015 Vormetric Insider Threat Report – Healthcare Edition, 48 percent of IT decision-makers in healthcare organizations surveyed report either encountering a data breach or failing a compliance audit in the last year (tying with U.S. retailers as the highest of any category Vormetric surveyed). Sixty-two percent of survey-takers identified privileged users as the most dangerous insider threat, followed by partners with internal access and contractor/service-provider employees.