Cybersecurity

Below are nine hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking cybersecurity talent.

Baton Rouge, La.-based General Health System, which operates Baton Rouge General Medical Center, has confirmed that unauthorized individuals gained access to its network and exfiltrated files containing patient data.

While states like California, Texas and Florida most often experience healthcare data breaches — not surprising given their size — Indiana leads the way based on the number of incidents per capita, according to an Aug. 24 report by researcher…

A report from Cynerio and the Ponemon Institute found 43 percent of hospitals had suffered a data breach in the past two years.

As healthcare cybersecurity risks continue to rise, health systems are struggling to arm themselves due to a job shortage in healthcare workers, VentureBeat reported Aug. 23.

The healthcare industry has been a favorite target of hackers, with nearly 5,000 data breaches affecting more than 342 million medical records since 2009, according to an Aug. 24 analysis by researcher Comparitech.

Russian hackers, known as the Karakurt gang, have targeted at least four healthcare organizations in the last three months, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned Aug. 24. 

South Dakota is the riskiest state for malware attacks, according to the 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report.

As healthcare organizations faced an increase in cybersecurity threats, HHS, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency increased their efforts to support, inform and advise the healthcare industry of possible threats and how to amp up security measures.

From increased collaboration with healthcare organizations to more combinations of security operations centers, Nate Lesser, CISO at Washington, D.C.-based Children's National Hospital, made four predictions about what the future of healthcare cybersecurity will involve, VentureBeat reported Aug. 23.