Protecting the Healthcare Supply Chain from Cyberattacks
Vulnerabilities within the healthcare supply chain can become avenues for cyberattacks and subsequent disruptions.
By Jeff Wardon, Jr., Assistant Editor
The deluge of cyberattacks on healthcare organizations continues to happen daily. If that wasn’t bad enough, entities in the healthcare supply chain are also being targeted and becoming potential attack vectors towards the healthcare organizations.
Not much light has been shed on this weak point — it is even considered a “critical blind spot” in healthcare cybersecurity, says Errol Weiss, chief security officer at Health-ISAC.
“When I think about the current environment, these system disruptions and data breaches are really the digital weapons of choice for today’s cyber criminals and nation states to achieve their goals,” says Weiss.
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