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CHICAGO \u2013 It’s the most valuable data on the dark web, and with 76% of healthcare organizations paying the ransoms, “we’re funding the attacks ourselves,” said Nate Lesser, Children’s National Hospital’s vice president and CISO.<\/p>\n

Ransomware is the chief concern keeping hospital and healthcare cybersecurity officers up at night, Lesser said at the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference &\u00a0Exhibition here on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While budgets and reimbursements are down\u00a0and payroll is up, there’s not enough information security talent to go around even if the money were there, he said.<\/p>\n

To complicate matters further, artificial intelligence “is improving attackers’ ability to launch highly sophisticated social engineering phishing attacks.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Considering that the\u00a0average healthcare data breach lifecycle is 329 days and compromises the ability to deliver patient care, it’s clear that cybersecurity must be “a team sport,” said Lesser.<\/p>\n

He advised conference attendees to work within their organization’s existing incident response mechanisms to create and practice a cyber incident protocol that involves all employees \u2013 from facilities staff to surgeons.<\/p>\n

At Children’s, all the hospital’s employees are considered “force multipliers” \u2013 they know they have to act quickly to reduce “the blast radius” when a “code dark”\u00a0is called.<\/p>\n

Lesser said he was fortunate that an emergency response framework was already well-built at the hospital.<\/p>\n

“It’s all about folding it into things that are already working.”<\/p>\n

He said the hospital chose “code dark”\u00a0to trigger full-scale cyberattack response because employees are trained to respond to codes. To help contain the attack and improve\u00a0the speed of recovery after a cyberattack, employees are asked\u00a0take the following\u00a0steps:<\/p>\n