Healthcare Leads In Third-Party Data Breaches, Says New Report
Healthcare IT News, Tuesday, June 25th, 2024
In 2023, 35% of third-party breaches affected healthcare organizations with application security presenting the broadest attack surface, according to a new cybersecurity analysis of the largest healthcare companies.
While the research spotlighted the healthcare sector's cybersecurity progress - earning it a "better than expected" B+ security rating for the first half of 2024, weaknesses in application and endpoint security present significant supply chain risk, SecurityScorecard said in a statement Tuesday.
WHY IT MATTERS
SecurityScorecard, a supply chain cybersecurity firm, said it examined breach history and security ratings of the 500 largest healthcare companies whose stock is publicly traded in the United States to provide the industry with insights that could help stop third-party data breaches.