For healthcare orgs, DR means making sure docs can save lives during ransomware infections

This article examines ransomware’s impact on healthcare, noting that life-critical operations make providers more likely to pay while criminals increasingly favor data theft and extortion over outright shutdowns to avoid law-enforcement scrutiny; it recommends resilience and disaster-recovery practices such as offline clinical protocols (manual charting, printed medication schedules), prioritizing legacy/IoT/OT systems, mapping critical assets and dependencies, maintaining redundant clinical equipment, and running tabletop exercises to validate recovery timelines.