About 44 percent of healthcare organizations that experienced a ransomware attack last year took up to a week to recover, according to a 2022 Sophos report. That kind of downtime is especially worrisome for patient care, so organizations are shoring up their defenses with much-needed alliances.
The threat of a ransomware attack was the most urgent reason the University of Maryland Medical System signed on to a managed detection and response (MDR) service, but the partnership also strengthens the health system’s perimeter defenses against all kinds of malware, says Duc Lai, UMMS vice president…
