Last year healthcare had more cybersecurity breaches than any other industry — and it will likely intensify

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Globally, healthcare was racked with more cybersecurity breaches than any other industry in 2018:

We expect another uptick in US health breaches in 2019 as counterefforts stagnate.to health firms' third-highest priority in 2018 — down from its first in 2017— despite the intensifying risk of attack. Given that conformance to HIPAA standards dipped in 2018 even while cybersecurity was the industry's top priority, it's unlikely that organizations will revamp countermeasures enough to move the needle on cybersecurity in 2019.

Health firms have indicated that they're reluctant to make security measures an investment priority. Leaders at US health firms say cybersecurity isprimarily because the sophistication of cyberattacks increases at a faster rate than prevention capabilities, there are too many competing priorities, and the cost of countermeasures is too high.

in security. If dollars allocated to cybersecurity can't keep pace with the security threat, we'll likely see a greater volume of breaches.1. Sign up for the Digital Health Briefing to get it delivered to your inbox 6x a week. >>pass to Business Insider Intelligence and gain immediate access to the Digital Health Briefing, plus more than 250 other expertly researched reports.

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