Healthcare Held Hostage: Fighting the Plague of Ransomware | Huntress

This article warns of escalating ransomware impacts on healthcare—linking attacks to patient safety risks, long breach dwell times, and the black-market value of PHI—while highlighting RaaS proliferation and notable events like Ardent Health Services’ disruption and UnitedHealth’s ransom payment. It promotes a defense-in-depth approach centered on managed EDR (specifically Huntress), illustrating benefits via a rapid containment anecdote and contrasting it with a reactive case that led to data theft, ultimately urging proactive adoption of 24/7 managed detection and response.