Targeted Hospitals

 

Hospitals have a prolific amount of data. This isn’t one type of data but covers the patient’s visit and includes all their information for their insurance and diagnosis. This is collected every single day. The mountain of the data warehouse is coveted by attackers, hospital peers due to its value.

The data’s value has drawn numerous attacks over the years with most thankfully being unsuccessful. The successful attacks have proven to be somewhat disastrous affecting already stretched finances and patient care. To support cybersecurity in hospitals, and by extension decrease the number of compromises and breaches, the Biden administration has a new plan. This would force the hospitals to put more effort and resources into cybersecurity. Within the next few months, they plan on pushing a proposal requiring hospitals to put in place basic cybersecurity defenses. Without this in place, the hospitals would no received federal funding.

One area not detailed is the definition of basic digital security defenses. There is an idea in play now for this. One would think these would already being place, especially the present federal statutes in place. This will be interesting from the aspect of what the final definition will be for the cybersecurity tasks and the implementation. This assuredly won’t be cheap. 

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