Bad actors continue to target healthcare organizations with cyberattacks as the amount of valuable patient data collected continues to grow. However, other factors are making it difficult for healthcare organizations to protect patient data. These include IT and security staff shortages, the increased sophistication of attacks, the impacts of the pandemic, and regulatory pressures.
For example, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 incentivized healthcare organizations to invest in technology to digitize the patient record and became the primary focus…
