Healthcare Industry Spending More on Security But Not Ready for Cyberattack
Two-thirds of the nation's healthcare provider organizations have experienced some kind of cyberattack in recent years and increased spending on data security hasn't improved the industry's readiness against attacks, according to a survey conducted by HIMSS.
The 2015 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey found that the majority of respondents (87 percent) also indicated that information security had increased as a business priority at their organizations over the past year, resulting in improvements to security posture, such as improvements to network security capabilities, endpoint protection, data loss prevention, disaster recovery and information technology (IT) continuity.