A Ransomware Attack is as Important as Your Health

The healthcare industry continues to be one of the most popular targets for cybercriminals. Across the globe, healthcare companies contain sensitive information for millions of people and give criminals an incentive to perform one large sweep to get the most value out of their attacks. This data also continues to hold value on the dark web and among hacking groups.

Ransomware Attack on Healthcare Industry

Recently, Healthcare Fiscal Management Inc. (HFMI) of North Carolina experienced a ransomware attack where at least 58,000 patients may have had personal information stolen. Luckily, HFMI had backups and was prepared to restore lost data to a different server. Although all the data was recovered, it was still exposed to the attackers for an extended time. SpearTip recommends having a preventative plan rather than a reactive plan and of course, keeping backups isolated from the rest of the network. HFMI was required to notify their patients after this happened and provided free credit monitoring and identity theft protection.

SpearTip’s ShadowSpear® platform can specifically be tailored to the healthcare industry to keep your organization from getting into this exact problem. A U.S.-based 24/7 Security Operations Center monitors your endpoints for malicious events around the clock.

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