With healthcare facilities scrambling to pinpoint and address their top cyber threats, Fortified’s report provides some guidance on where to begin. The report identifies five major security gaps in healthcare organisations: inadequate asset inventories, a lack of unified risk management strategies, a lack of focus on supply-chain vulnerabilities, a preference for installing new technology over maintaining legacy systems, and poor employee training.
Major cyberattacks in recent years have demonstrated how these threats are linked. Weak supply-chain oversight is an especially critical issue given the interconnected framework of the healthcare ecosystem, which includes hospitals, pharmacies, and specialty-care institutions.
The 2024 Change Healthcare hack highlighted the industry’s reliance on a few obscure but ubiquitous vendors. Outdated asset inventories exacerbate these flaws, making it more difficult to repair the damage after a supply-chain attack. And these attacks frequently target the very legacy technologies that have been overlooked in favour of new products.
While securing old systems rem
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