81 percent of U.S. healthcare companies plan to increase security spending this year, compared to an overall industry average of 73 percent. The higher interest in improving security is likely due to increased awareness of both data breaches and risks of ransomware. Regulators are coming down harder on healthcare companies than ever before, said Thales e-Security’s Jim DeLorenzo. More than 110 million healthcare records breached in 2015 alone, the medical information of nearly half of all Americans is already available on the black market.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3173367/healthcare-firms-plan-to-increase-security-spending.html