Cyberattacks – It’s Not a Case Of ‘If’, But ‘When’!
Healthcare organizations are one of the most commonly targeted by unscrupulous bad actors looking to disrupt services and extort money. According to IBM Security, in their Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023, healthcare also has the highest cost of data breaches by industry. Now, more than ever before, healthcare providers are being subjected, daily, to attempts to penetrate their networks and systems. It’s now generally recognized that it’s not a case of ‘if’ a cyberattack is successful, but ‘when’. But, the risks these attacks bring has far-reaching implications.
What are the cyberattack risks for healthcare organizations?
Patient Risk
The inability to access and manage patient records leads to potential errors in diagnosis and treatment, threatening patient safety.
Operational Risk
Financial Risk
Recovery efforts, system repairs, and potential ransom payments, as well as the loss of revenue due to disrupted services, carry significant cost implications.
Mitigate The Impact Of A Successful Cyberattack With BridgeHead
BridgeHead’s Cyberattack Mitigation solutions offers a three-point plan to assist healthcare organizations in efficiently and effectively navigating their way through a cyberattack as well as offering preventative measures to reduce future risk.
Attack Surface Reduction
Reduce your cybersecurity attack surface by retiring your legacy applications, enabling you to:
- Eliminate security vulnerabilities targeted by unscrupulous bad actors
- Save the costs, resources, and time in maintenance and support of legacy systems
- Reduce patient, clinical, operational, legal, financial, and reputational risks.
Clinical Workflow Continuity
Reduce your organization’s reliance on manual processes for clinical and operational workloads by:
- Offering a reliable starting point for your patient data to enable continuity of clinical service
- Providing secure, near real-time access to an uncompromised view of patient records
- Utilizing healthcare industry standards: FHIR, HL7, XDS, DICOM, and more; for accessing and sharing patient data.
Application Recovery
Ensuring comprehensive backup and disaster recovery of your compromised digital information systems by:
- Providing file and system level protection and recovery; with deployments spanning Cloud to tape, featuring immutability and encryption options
- Outsourcing management of your RAPid™ Data Protection environment via
our Platinum Maintenance offering - Capitalizing on industry-leading help for customers recovering from cyber events.
Who Benefits From BridgeHead’s Cyberattack Mitigation Solutions
BridgeHead’s three-point plan for cyberattack mitigation can positively impact a variety of stakeholders in a healthcare organization.
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