Advanced Threat Protection For the Healthcare Industry
November 1, 2016
Seid Yassin (557 articles)
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Advanced Threat Protection For the Healthcare Industry

The healthcare industry is in a unique and particularly vulnerable position when it comes
to cyber security. Providers face substantial regulation around privacy and data security
while hackers have much to gain from patient data. Recent statistics put the black
market value of healthcare records at ten times that of credit card information.

Attackers aren’t just motivated by potential financial rewards either. A number of recent
large data breaches have been attributed to state actors collecting data for suspected
espionage purposes. Protected Health Information (PHI) can be used to build rich
personal profiles in the wrong hands.

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