Nate Warfield, CTO of Prevailion and former Microsoft security researcher, discusses the many security challenges and failings plaguing this industry. The healthcare industry has long been a target of cybercriminals, due to its valuable personal and financial data. The shift to more aggressive and destructive tactics like ransomware extortion and double-extortion is putting an incredible burden on this critical service sector. Hospitals should be aggressively using VLANs, subnets, Access Control Lists and firewalls, but these are often not thoroughly implemented.
Source: https://threatpost.com/healthcare-prey-ransomware-cyberattacks/167525/