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75% of Healthcare Industry Hit with Malware

November 3, 2016

As SC Magazine reported earlier this week, the healthcare vertical is at particular risk from ransomware. This is just one of the finds of the "2016 Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Report" a newly released survey from SecurityScorecard, a security rating and continuous risk monitoring platform.

Some of the report's key findings are:

• Over 75% of the entire healthcare industry has been infected with malware over the last year
• 96% of all ransomware targeted medical treatment centers
• Healthcare manufacturing nearly reaches a 90% malware infection rate
• 63% of the 27 biggest US hospitals have a C or lower in Patching Cadence, which measures an organization's ability to implement security software patches in a timely fashion
• Healthcare has the 5th highest count of ransomware among all industries
• Over 50% of the healthcare industry has a Network Security score of a C or lower
• Past-breached healthcare companies still have 242% as many low scores in Social Engineering compared to non-breached companies

None of this is good news for the healthcare industry – or for those of us whose medical data is held by healthcare entities!

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