Cybersecurity standards raised by the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act | Huntress

Senators Wyden and Warner introduced the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act (HISAA) in response to a surge in ransomware and data breaches across U.S. healthcare—citing high-impact incidents such as the Change Healthcare outage that affected a large portion of Americans—and proposing mandatory cybersecurity standards, annual audits and stress tests, executive accountability, larger penalties, and funding to help hospitals comply; the article urges healthcare organizations to adopt managed EDR/SIEM and security awareness training and highlights Huntress services as a remediation option.