11 Things the Health Care Sector Must Do to Improve Cybersecurity

No industry or sector is immune to hacking. That reality was made painfully clear in mid-May, when a cyberattacker using WannaCry ransomware crippled health care institutions and many other kinds of organizations around the world. Some of the most well-known examples of cyberattacks in the last decade have included the mass theft of millions of credit and debit cards numbers, the penetration of sensitive bank systems, and the manipulation of stock trading and other capital markets-related violations. This turmoil led to huge operational shifts in the financial services sector, where there’s more focus than ever on consumer education, industry information-sharing, and stronger forms of authentication, among other things. By comparison, health care is behind in its security readiness. There are 11 lessons that the health care sector can learn from financial services organizations.