SecurityScorecard is a information security vendor that provides its customers with ratings on their security posture by assessing potential vulnerabilities. For its 2019 healthcare report, the vendor reviewed data on more than 26,000 companies across 18 industries from September 2018 to January 2019 to determine which fields were most vulnerable to data security incidents.
Healthcare’s placement in the company’s overall data security performance ranking earned it a spot in the “top performers” category for the report. However, healthcare did not rank within the top three slots for any of the 10 data security performance categories assessed in the report, coming in fifth in network security, eighth in application security and 12th in endpoint security.
The 18 industries included in SecurityScorecard’s analysis, ranked by data security performance:
1. Financial services
2. Pharmaceutical
3. Government
4. Energy
5. Food
6. Construction
7. Legal
8. Healthcare
9. Retail
10. Manufacturing
11. Transportation
12. Hospitality
13. Entertainment
14. Nonprofit
15. Information services
16. Technology
17. Education
18. Telecommunications
To download SecurityScorecard’s report, click here.
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