ransomware

This week's top stories include the Biden administration aiming to get 70% of adults at least one vaccine dose by July 4, ransomware continuing to be a threat to healthcare, and Collective Health scaling its employer health benefits platform.

With new ransomware tricks and recent attempts at "double extortion" on the black market, CynergisTek CEO Caleb Barlow says "we've really seen a marked change in adversarial intent."

Chris Stouff, chief security officer at Armor Cloud Security, says ransomware is the last step before threat actors get paid, so Armor's approach to stopping attacks from succeeding is to "secure left."

With health systems in the cybercrime crosshairs, there are steps IT and security professionals should be taking now to shore up their defenses, says longtime CIO Drex DeFord, now a strategic healthcare executive for CI Security.