President Biden's recent executive order for bolstering cybersecurity of the federal government contains provisions for enhancing supply chain security that are
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COVID-19 has presented a number of unique challenges to the healthcare sector over the past year. Healthcare providers have been placed on the frontline and tasked with treating patients, educating the population, and distributing vaccines. With the industry’s attention and resources focused squarely on the pandemic, however, new threats to the healthcare system have emerged.
In the last year, healthcare providers and institutions have increasingly found themselves the target of cybersecurity attacks. A recent report issued by Check Point Software Technologies found that there has been a 45% increase in cyberattacks targeting healthcare providers globally since November 2020. It is estimated that in 2020 alone, 26 million patient records were exposed to unauthorized parties, the overwhelming majority of which were the result of healthcare cyberattacks.