Healthcare Security Professionals Have Reduced Confidence in Assessing IT Risks
Healthcare security professionals are finding their ability to assess IT security risks is lower now than ever before. This is one of the reasons the healthcare industry received an overall “D” grade on its 2017 Global Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card, conducted by network security firm Tenable.
As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, and increasingly target the health are industry, healthcare security professionals need to find ways to assess and mitigate cyber risks in order to protect information assets. But the report shows participants scored only 61 percent on the risk-assessment index — a 12-percent decrease from 2016.