White House Seeks Cybersecurity Help for Rural Hospitals

Private sector partners, including Microsoft and Google, are offering resources to help secure rural hospitals against cyber attacks. Hospitals will receive up to a 75% discount on Microsoft security products, free advanced security suite for a year and cyber assessments. Google will give rural hospitals free endpoint security advice, discounts on its communication tools, funding for software migration and will launch a package of security solutions. The article considers cyberattacks as a serious issue for healthcare, particularly damaging for small, rural facilities.