The healthcare industry is an inviting and lucrative target for threat actors. It holds lots of valuable personal, health and finance data living in environments that often depend on legacy technology that is hard to patch and is defended by small teams with limited resources. Worse, the cost for data breaches at healthcare organizations is high. Not only does the healthcare industry have the highest cost per record breached according to the 2018 Ponemon Cost of a Data Breach study ($408, nearly double the next-highest industry), but research published last year suggested healthcare data breaches may cause as many as 2,100 deaths per year in the United States.
