Cyber attacks responsible for higher mortality rate
As the Ponemon Institute found out in a study, cyber attacks lead to an increased mortality rate in more than 20 percent of affected US healthcare facilities. Cyber attacks result in delays in treatment or testing. That costs lives. Proofpoint, Inc., one of the leading next-generation cybersecurity and compliance companies, and the Ponemon Institute, a leading IT security research institute, present the results of a new study on the consequences of cyber attacks in healthcare. The report, titled "Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare: The Cost and Impact on Patient Safety and Care," found that 89 percent of those surveyed...
