Top security trends 2022: Healthcare Sector

The changes in the Healthcare landscape over the last two years forced crucial changes to the industry. Employees working from home via telehealth or other methods of hybrid work meant that there were more entry points for attackers. According to IBM the average cost of a data breach within the Healthcare Sector is just under $10 million AUD, which could be make or break for many Australian businesses. 

COVID-19 has fundamentally changed the cyber threat landscape for the health sector, with malicious actors increasingly targeting and compromising health networks, which are already under pressure in a pandemic operating environment. Malicious actors are primarily financially motivated and may seek to gain access to valuable data stores, use the branding from high-profile victims and incidents to bolster the legitimacy of the targeting activity, and/or cause disruption to business operations and continuity through methods such as ransomware. (ACSC 2020)