The Future of Healthcare, Secured

Healthcare delivery is changing rapidly, and as patient care and improving patient outcomes top priority lists, cybersecurity has become a strategic imperative across the healthcare continuum. Why? The increase in adoption of telehealth, a mobile workforce and emergence of connected medical devices, healthcare is more accessible to patients from anywhere. The traditional networks powering the new modalities provided by innovations in healthcare delivery expand the attack surface and are more vulnerable to threats and data breaches.

This leaves IT and security teams to navigate the vast array of cybersecurity solutions on the market. In doing so, they often patch together, implement, and expend valuable resources while managing a wide variety of point security solutions, adding to the complexity.

• The healthcare industry saw the highest growth of ransomware attacks compared to 2021–a 650% increase¹
• Healthcare data breach costs increased from an average total cost of $7.13 million in 2020 to $9.23 million in 2021, a 29.5% increase²
• Healthcare data breaches cost an average of $408 per record, which is three times higher than the cross-industry average of $148 per record³

1. Source: https://www.zscaler.com/press/zscaler-threatlabz-2022-ransomware-report-reveals-record-number-attacks-and-nearly-120-growth
2. IBM cost of a data breach report 2021
3. Becker https://techjury.net/blog/healthcare-data-breaches-statistics/#gref