Cyber Alert: U.S. Healthcare Industry Suffers the Most Cyber Attacks

Criminal attacks against healthcare providers have more than doubled, since 2014. Texas alone has led the country in total hacking breaches reported to HIPAA for four of the past five years. The state also ranked high in total number of records stolen, with more than 1.4 million individuals’ data, according to U.S. Health and Human Services and cited by Texas Public Radio.

Hackers stole the health records of more than 9 million Americans, last year. The data collected includes breaches from hospitals, health insurers and other health organizations covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

The Texas healthcare industry continues to be a target for data thieves, because Texas is the second largest state in the U.S. and has experienced all the examples of cyber attacks, ranging from incidents affecting rural critical access hospitals to large nonprofit and for-profit systems.

Without an ongoing systematic approach to IT security, a strong security posture to protect patient data, is in jeopardy. The healthcare industry continues to be a prime target for information theft as it lags other industries in securing critical data and medical information which has the greatest value to hackers.

It is imperative for healthcare providers to invest time and funding into maintaining and ensuring the protection of healthcare technologies and the confidentiality of patient information from unauthorized access.

Proactive security in healthcare is, therefore, a must! It means predicting threats that your institution might face and arming yourself ahead of time. Healthcare providers must take an “offensive” posture to protecting patient data from security breaches by developing and adhering to a comprehensive plan.

At the Techcess CyberSecurity Group, we provide small and medium-sized businesses the managed cyber security services that are typically reserved for larger enterprises. Our managed detection and response services are used by various companies in multiple industry verticals for actively monitoring their networks and hence preventing potential cyber-intrusions and cyber-attacks.

By choosing the security professionals at Techcess CyberSecurity Group to oversee your network’s security, you know that your organization will deal with less downtime, fewer threats, and gain the peace of mind that your business’ network, data, and infrastructure is thoroughly protected. Speak to a support team member on the phone now! Phone: 1-833-TXCYBER | 1-833-892-9237