As cyberattacks on healthcare companies rise, threat intelligence can raise the barrier for entry

By Jason Harrison

The healthcare industry has a serious cybersecurity problem. Weekly cyberattacks on US healthcare entities have risen 86% since 2021, according to Insider Intelligence.¹ Organizations are now suffering an average of 1,410 attacks each week, and the story is much the same globally.

Healthcare’s current vulnerability to cyberattacks is partially because it hasn’t had the same historical pressure to invest heavily in cybersecurity compared to other sectors. Instead, the majority of its resources were rightly focused on …