Downtime in Healthcare is Fatal: Achieving Resilience in Health & Life Sciences

This episode of Data Security Decoded explains that cyberattacks against hospitals are now tied directly to patient safety — citing a reported 29% increase in inpatient mortality after attacks — and examines common entry points (notably email), lateral movement through nonclinical systems (HVAC, supply chain), long attacker dwell times, and the use of legitimate tools to evade detection; it closes with pragmatic defenses including stronger email security, network segmentation, and proactive threat hunting, and argues cybersecurity must be treated as an operational patient-safety issue.