Four in 10 Health Care Executives Admit Breaches, Raising Concern for Safety of Health Records

  • 11 September 2015
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From what we have posted in here so far this year this comes as no surprise at all. The only question is that why do they not seem to be tightening up security because as it appears to the general public things the security seems to be very lacking in something. This results is a huge lack of consumer confidence which has to hit the profits of the companies eventually.
 
September 11, 2015 By: Razvan Muresan
 
Some 81% of health care executives say their systems have been compromised by at least one malware, botnet or other cyber-attack during the past two years, and only half feel adequately prepared to prevent attacks, according to the Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey by big four accountancy firm KPMG.
 
The survey shows attacks are increasing, with 13% of C-level executives saying they are targeted by external hack attempts about once a day and another 12% seeing about two or more attacks per week.
 
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