In 2020, the healthcare industry was the target of 20 percent of data security incidents identified in a recent BakerHostetler report. The rise in ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations specially led the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a joint cybersecurity advisory in October of that year describing “the tactics, techniques and procedures used by cybercriminals against targets in the Healthcare and Public Health Sector to infect systems with ransomware, notably Ryuk and Conti, for financial gain.”…
