The healthcare sector is much like any other organization. However, the limited understanding of compounding threats of malware, hackers, and supply chain problems, makes it susceptible to astronomical risk. Many businesses in the healthcare sector know little about healthcare information security.

Within a day, there is a considerable exchange of patient data in the way of electronic health records, sign-in processes, credit card information, biometric confirmation, etc. All this information is stored in one too many devices, and when hospital workers don’t want to keep entering and changing passwords, they use personal laptops to bypass what IT has put in place.

This adds up to more vulnerabilities because rogue devices become conduits for data loss when used to access patient records outside the hospital’s cloud services without tight security controls. As with most [#&8230;]