Ahead of Rubrik’s inaugural Healthcare Summit on September 12th, I thought it was appropriate to set the stage for what’s coming.
Threat actors aren’t going to wait for you to get ready before they launch their attack. They’re banking on you not being able to recover your data—or not being able to recover fast enough—to maximize the damage they leave in their wake.
And when a healthcare organization’s systems go down, that impacts their ability to fulfill an all-important mission: to protect and heal patients.
In this blog, I’m going to show you why Rubrik’s Healthcare Summit is exactly the place you’ll want to be if you want to keep your promise to your patients and your board. We’ll talk about the types of threats you’re facing, how threat actors are exploiting your vulnerabilities, and what you can do about it.
The real cost of cybercrime on healthcare
Here’s what this industry is really up against.
According to recent findings by Rubrik Zero Labs, an average of 16.8 million files are impacted in a typical healthcare ransomware event. Those files can (and do) include sensitive, confidential patient health information (PHI), and your patients trust you to keep that data safe from exposure. Plus, getting that data exposed could put you at risk of becoming non-compliant and facing regulators as a result.
And sensitive data exposure is only one consequence you and your patients will face as a result. Cyberattacks and operational disruptions could cause delayed or disrupted patient care, putting real lives at risk. From 2016 to 2021, the fallout from ransomware attacks directly contributed to the deaths of between 42 and 67 patients.
As troubling as that is, your patients aren’t the only ones affected by an attack. Rubrik Zero Labs also found that in 2023, a single healthcare intrusion affected an average of more than 244,000 people. That means you have a lot of folks betting on you to get back on your feet—and fast.
At the Healthcare Summit, we’ll be diving deeper into the anatomy of cyberattacks and how they impact healthcare organizations like yours—both immediately and in the long-run—and we’ll cover what a successful recovery looks like. Plus, CIOs and CISOs will weigh in on what should be top-of-mind when it comes to cyber resilience.
One session you might be especially interested in is A Real-World Cyber Recovery Case Study, where we’ll be walking you through a real-world attack from intrusion to recovery, so you can prepare before you’re ever in the hot seat.
Threat actors are only getting better at their jobs
We can’t just look at the rising number of cyberattacks (and the seriousness of these attacks) without acknowledging something distressing: Cybercriminals are even getting better at what they do.
On top of more sophisticated tools and technologies, they’re also wising up to the vulnerabilities in the healthcare sector and exploiting them to devastating effect. Here’s one example: 97% of healthcare encrypted data is within virtualized architecture compared to 83% in other industries. Virtualized architectures are typically less secure than traditional endpoints, which gives attackers easy access to your environment—often with just compromised credentials.
Put simply, their jobs are actually made easier.
That means you need to be ready to counter their next move with a cyber resilience strategy that can hold up against it. In the Hot Seat: Your Cyber Resilience Measures Under Scrutiny is one session you’ll especially want to pay attention to during the Healthcare Summit because it addresses exactly this issue. CIOs will come together to talk about how to know your preparedness plan is good enough, so you’re not left scrambling during a crisis.
There’s hope on the horizon
As scary as many of the things I’ve talked about are, one of the most important reasons for attending the Healthcare Summit is to dive into all the ways we’re fighting against these challenges.
We want to be crystal clear that we help you rapidly recover clean systems after the barbarians have gotten through your gate. We’ll show you how to rapidly detect the bad guys and recover critical systems with the confidence that you won’t get reinfected, so you’re not stuck in an infinite loop that keeps you down for weeks.
You’ll also learn why true cyber resilience means getting more teams involved. It’s a boardroom conversation—not just one that’s strictly for IT and security teams. We’ll also talk about why you can’t rely on legacy backup solutions to get the job done and how moving toward AI-powered remediation can help you recover swiftly.
There’s so much more that we’ll be talking about, and you can get a glimpse of what’s in store for you on our event page.
Your data, your patients, and your board will be grateful you came, so don’t miss out! Click here to register.