What hospital execs should be asking medical device vendors about cybersecurity

Security audits can also help to determine the value of legacy systems and calculate the risk of keeping them against the cost of replacement. Cybercriminals are increasingly attacking medical devices with ransomware and other malware since they are both soft targets and, because they are often essential to patient’s lives, hackers have considerable leverage when demanding payment. That means hospital CIOs, CISOs and their staffs should be taking steps now to protect health data. “Ransomware attacks against medical devices are...