However, despite a growing knowledge of ransomware, when consumers were asked what they believe healthcare IT professionals should do to respond to a ransomware attack, many consumers illustrated they still have more to learn. 11% of respondents said they would have their healthcare provider pay the ransomware demand, despite experts noting that you should rarely pay a ransomware demand to regain access to a network.
One-quarter of U.S. consumers fear their healthcare providers’ web browser defenses are their weakest security link, followed closely by their email phishing defenses (23%) and endpoint security (19%).
“With data breaches costing healthcare providers over $4 billion in 2019 and attacks becoming more sophisticated, it’s no surprise today’s consumers are more aware of the dangers impacting the healthcare industry,” says Andrew Homer, VP of Security Strategy at Morphisec. “Ransomware is nearly three times more likely to be the cause of data breaches in the healthcare industry than within other markets, and therefore healthcare cybersecurity professionals are increasingly turning to lightweight, advanced protection against these threats to harden their security stacks as they migrate to Windows 10, as well as, cloud workload and virtual IT environments.”
About Morphisec
Morphisec offers an entirely new level of innovation to customers in its Endpoint Threat Prevention product, delivering protection against the most advanced cyberattacks. The company’s patented Moving Target Defense technology prevents threats others can’t, including APTs, zero-days, ransomware, evasive fileless attacks and web-borne exploits. Morphisec provides a crucial, small-footprint memory-defense layer that easily deploys into a company’s existing security infrastructure to form a simple, highly effective, cost-efficient prevention stack that is truly disruptive to today’s existing cybersecurity model.
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