Cyber attacks pose a clear and present danger for today’s health care stakeholders. In fact, the threat is so mainstream that many industry professionals suggest the question is no longer whether an attack will occur but when.
On an organizational level, response plans provide the foundation for an effective defense and mitigation strategy. Sharecare’s Jim Bailey, president of the company’s health data services business unit, says that although organizations of every size and industry are under a constant barrage of cyber attacks, “In the event that one of these is successful at breaching your defenses, a cyber response plan, or incident response plan as we call it, can drastically impact the outcome of the attack. The complexity of systems, networks, and applications can be difficult and time consuming to properly inspect and recover from a cyber incident.”
