Taking the pulse of cyber security in healthcare

Large hospitals often have thousands of workstations used by multiple employees to access confidential patient data, so securing them can be a major challenge. Endpoint security specialist Duo Security has compared its customers in healthcare with those in other industries to determine how the sector differs in its security requirements. Among the findings are that healthcare customers are logging into twice as many applications as the average user, widening the attack vector. Twice as many healthcare endpoints have Flash installed and three times as many healthcare customers have Java installed on their devices, again, putting them at greater risk of… [Continue Reading]