By Evan Ramzipoor, Workflow contributor
A month after Russia invaded Ukraine, President Joe Biden issued a statement warning that Russia-sponsored hackers might attack U.S. infrastructure in retaliation for its support of Ukraine.
In response to these warnings, the healthcare industry has scrambled to ramp up cybersecurity investment and preparation. However, according to Virginia Greiman, an assistant professor of administrative sciences at Boston University, there’s still more to do. “We haven’t yet reached the point where we’re ready for a full-blown crisis like taking a whole hospital network offline,” she says.
A May 2022 ThoughtLab survey, “Cybersecurity Solutions for a Riskier World,” sponsored by 11 IT and cybersecurity companies including ServiceNow, backs this up. More than a third of healthcare executives say their organizations are “not prepared” for such threats.
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