Healthcare is the most targeted industry by malicious actors with an 8.2% increase in threat incidents since 2022 costing it an average of $10.93 million. Growing risky insider incidents and hefty regulatory fines indicate an urgent need for the industry to adopt a robust security system and gain strong control over rising data attacks leading to regulatory compliance breaches.
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The highly data-driven Healthcare industry – facing the most threats as 30% of large data breaches happen in hospitals – is in utmost need of adopting firm countermeasures to mitigate risks and loss of reputation.
The Healthcare industry is at the center of data attacks that cause disruptions to its high liability to maintain regulatory compliance. Let’s understand what causes the most harm to the industry.
What are the threats the Healthcare industry faces the most
Trusted insiders pose the biggest threat to the healthcare industry by exploiting susceptibilities in security and causing a breach of workplace compliance.
Malicious insiders
The healthcare industry faces a significant threat from within in the form of malicious insiders who, benefiting their authority, gain access to critical data and pass it to competitors or third parties for monetary benefits or personal gains.
Workplace non-compliance
Risky actors looking for security vulnerabilities make their way to sensitive health records and disclose data to cause harm to business trust and reputation.
Unauthorized data exposure
The industry receives threats from disgruntled or dissatisfied insiders who act vengefully to harm the integrity of healthcare data and cause unrecoverable loss.
Malicious actors in the healthcare industry target the data the most that hold more monetary value, like Personal Health Information (PHI) which is higher in demand and provides greater incentive to threat actors.
What are the most targeted healthcare data
Personal records related to a patient’s health and identity are the most vulnerable, following credit card details as the next most targeted data for attackers.
Personal Health Information (PHI)
PHI data in the healthcare industry receives the most threats for its greater competitive and monetary advantages.
Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
PII data involves direct monetary benefits and is the second most targeted data for threat actors.
Credit card credentials
The billing details get higher breaches for exposure of credentials, and monetary advantages for threat actors.
Unauthorized data breaches impact the healthcare industry with regulatory costs and loss of business trust.
What is the impact of unauthorized healthcare data exposure
Insider threats affect the healthcare industry with unrecoverable data loss and harm its business integrity.
Breach of regulatory compliance
Data attacks impact the regulatory compliance obligations of the healthcare industry, causing it to suffer the loss of business credibility.
Hefty non-compliance charges
Growing data attacks disrupt healthcare organizations’ obligations to observe regulatory compliance and invite hefty fines leading to harm the revenue.
Loss of business trust and reputation
Increasing data threat incidents severely hit the trust of healthcare services among clients and impact the reputation leading to loss of business.
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