One India-based security firm reported a 20% rise in cybercrime rates among their Indian clients in 2024. The healthcare sectors were the hardest hit, with 100 per cent of monitored healthcare websites encountering bot-driven attacks. Indian healthcare institutions face a total of 8,614 cyberattacks every week. That is more than four times the global average and over double the amount faced by any other industry in India.
In many ways, the healthcare sector, anywhere you go, is simply difficult to protect:
1.Medical IoT (MIoT): A breach of one of these devices could siphon patient data at best; stop a heart monitor or infusion pump at worst.
2.Telehealth Adoption: The cost of that connectivity is vulnerability to internet-based attacks from snooping cybercriminals looking to siphon patient data.
In light of the specific challenges faced by India’s healthcare sector, security solutions that force-multiply current resources and focus on compliance are key, such as ransomware defense, anti-phishing, medical IoT defense etc.
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