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The prevalence of healthcare facilities being targeted by hackers is on the rise. Most recently a ransomware infection penetrated the computer network of MedStar Health, forcing the Washington health care behemoth to shut down its email and vast records’ database.
ABC Action News recently interviewed our founder and CEO Stu Sjouwerman about the rising ransomware threat in the health care industry.
Sjouwerman said hospitals make easy targets because for cyber attacks because, “employees typically are not trained well enough to stop an attack.”
Hospitals cannot afford to be shut down for any length of time. Without access to medical records, providing treatment to patients is risky at best.
If you think an e-mail is suspicious, don’t open it. Also, backup your computer weekly, or more if you put important files on it daily. Sjouwerman said use an external hard drive back up your files then remove the hard drive so an attack will not corrupt your backup.
“They hack into your network, they own your network, they delete your backups, and then they infect your files,” Sjouwerman said.
It just takes one employee clicking on a phishing link to infect an entire network and encrypt every file that that one employee has access to. That's exactly what happened when hackers were able to lock DC doctors and nurses out of thousands of patient records.
MedStar said that there is no evidence of compromised patient medical records or information and that all facilities remained open, despite the entire computer system being shut down.
It is clear this ransomware infection was caused by employees that were social engineered and did not get effective security awareness training. Contact us today for a quote!
