The widespread reliance on the cloud and the use of electronic health records by healthcare providers such as patient clinics, hospitals, and business associates has turned healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) into prime targets for cyberattacks.
In addition, third-party exposure, flexible access to patient care, human error, legacy operating systems, and the increasing adoption of internet- connected medical devices and other healthcare IoT (HIoT or IoMT), are all contributing factors to an ever-expanding attack surface that must be defended.
Skilled adversaries now target the healthcare sector over others due to the nature of the data that HDOs have access to–patients’ electronic protected health information (ePHI).
In recent years, the severity of cyberattacks, along with how fast cybercriminals can breach the perimeter to exfiltrate healthcare data, means that your security team must be able to minimize attacker dwell time and reduce the overall scope of the damage. This means prioritizing the speed of your response–how fast your team can identify, contain, and respond to a cyber threat becomes crucial in limiting operational disruption.
Why Is The Healthcare Sector A Growing Target?
- Electronic protected health information (ePHI) is more valuable than other types of information and often fetch top dollar on the Dark Web
- Healthcare institutions are likely to pay the extortion or ransomware demands in the wake of massive operational disruptions
- HDOs struggle with prioritizing investments in security tools and digital transformation to migrate off of outdated systems while also prioritizing patient care
- Third-party risk exposure stemming from a lack of due diligence to ensure third-party vendors and service providers are taking the proper steps to protect sensitive information
- Insufficient investment in hiring enough skilled cybersecurity practitioners
- Insufficient investment in security tools and technology to mitigate a data breach
- Difficulty identifying malicious insider
Introducing eSentire
A recognized globally as the Authority in Managed Detection and Response because we hunt, investigate, and stop known and unknown cyber threats before they become business disrupting events. Founded in 2001 to secure the environments of the world’s most targeted industry— financial services. Over the last two decades they have scaled cybersecurity services offering to hunt and disrupt threats across every industry on a global scale. With two 24/7 Security Operations Centers (SOCs), hundreds of cyber experts, and 1000+ customers across 70+ countries, they have scaled to deliver cybersecurity services across highly regulated industries with a proven track record of success in securing businesses across the healthcare sector including healthcare institutions, medical technology providers, and pharmaceutical companies.
At eSentire, they go beyond the market’s capability in threat response and specifically address cybersecurity risks for the manufacturing sector. eSentire’s multi-signal MDR approach ingests endpoint, network, log, cloud, asset and vulnerability data that enables complete attack surface visibility. Enriched detections from the eSentire Threat Response Unit are applied to captured data identifying known & unknown threats including suspicious activity and
zero-day attacks. With two 24/7 Security Operations Centers staffed with cyber experts and Elite Threat Hunters, an industry-leading XDR Cloud Platform, and refined security operations processes, eSentire can detect and respond to cybersecurity threats in the manufacturing industry with a Mean Time to Contain of 15 minutes.
