From prevention to mitigation: How to identify, understand and manage IT security risk

Healthcare organizations face significant cybersecurity challenges due to the valuable patient data they possess. The wide variety of systems in healthcare networks makes them vulnerable to ransomware attacks, which can lead to delayed or mistaken medical decisions and harm to patients. Healthcare organizations should shift towards mitigation rather than prevention, implement continuous evaluation and improvement of security controls, manage vulnerabilities and implement segmentation for IoT devices, and have a plan in place for responding to data breaches.