
Insiders Pose Cybersecurity Threat to Healthcare
The average cost for credential theft was more than $871,000 for each incident associated with an insider, warns HHS.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Cybersecurity Program Office of Information Security warned healthcare facilities on Thursday about vulnerabilities to insider threats. HHS cited a 2020 study from Ponomon, which found that 61% of data breaches involving an insider are primarily unintentional, caused by negligent insiders. Nearly 14% of breaches, however, are […]