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ACS MediHealth provides insight into the state of healthcare cybersecurity based upon the feedback from 167 healthcare cybersecurity professionals. Healthcare organizations face a myriad of challenges, including tight budgets, aging infrastructure and an increase in social engineering and ransomware attacks.

The Most Significant Security Incident:

• 🐟🐟 Phishing is still king. Phishing leads the pack.

• 💲💲 Financial information is the main target. Threat actors typically go where the money is.

• 🎣🎣 Initial hook is by phishing. Phishing tends to be the initial point of compromise.

• 🔥🔥 Disruption is a typical impact. Disruption is typical—whether organizations are prepared is another question.

Cybersecurity budgets:

• 📊📊 Overall, budgets are still tight. Six percent or less of the information technology budget is typically allocated for cybersecurity.

• 📈📈 Increases in budget for some. Cybersecurity budgets are modestly increasing compared to the previous year. But tight budgets still mean that one has to pick and choose which security solutions to acquire or implement.

• 🚦🚦 Decreases in budget for others. Cybersecurity budgets are decreasing for a few. This leads to less robust cybersecurity programs as a whole.

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