{"id":3206,"date":"2021-06-01T14:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T14:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2021-06-01T14:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T14:56:31","slug":"securing-healthcare-paying-the-ransom-only-got-69-of-the-data-back-in-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2021\/06\/resources\/securing-healthcare-paying-the-ransom-only-got-69-of-the-data-back-in-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Securing Healthcare: Paying the ransom only got 69% of the data back in healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/medialibrary\/pdfs\/whitepaper\/sophos-state-of-ransomware-in-healthcare-2021-wp.pdf\">State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2021<\/a>\u00a0report provides deep insight into the prevalence and impact of ransomware in the healthcare sector. The report also compares the experiences of healthcare with other industries and reveals the future expectations and readiness of healthcare organizations in the face of these attacks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIneffective cyber security is a clear and present danger to patient safety \u2026 cyber incidents can significantly disrupt health and care systems and directly contribute to patient harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Based on a survey of 328 healthcare IT managers in mid-sized organizations in 30 countries across the globe, the report reveals that just over a third of healthcare organizations (34%) were hit by ransomware last year, which is actually slightly below the global cross-sector average of 37%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attackers have a higher success rate at encrypting healthcare data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among the healthcare organizations that were hit by ransomware, 65% said their data was encrypted \u2013 compared with the cross-sector average of 54%. Globally 39% of organizations were able to stop the attack before the data was encrypted, dropping to just 28% in healthcare. This reduced ability to stop an attack may be a reflection of the financial and resourcing challenges that the healthcare sector faces, partly due to a reluctance to divert funds to cybersecurity that could be used for frontline patient care.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Healthcare is more likely to pay the ransom and less likely to backup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among the healthcare organizations whose data was encrypted, 34% paid the ransom compared with a cross-sector average of 32%. This may be because healthcare was less able to restore data from backups than almost all other sectors:\u00a0 on average 57% of organizations used backups to get their data back, \u00a0\u2013 this came down to only 44% in healthcare, the second lowest across all sectors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paying the ransom only gets 69% of the data back<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What attackers omit when issuing ransom demands is that even if you pay, your chances of getting all your data back are slim. 25 healthcare respondents who paid the ransom to get their data back got back, on average, just 69% of their data, leaving a considerable proportion of their data inaccessible.<\/p>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<p><strong>Educate customers and prospects and generate demand for your business<\/strong><\/p>\n<footer>Visit the Sophos Partner Portal to get access to the new <a href=\"https:\/\/partners.sophos.com\/prm\/English\/s\/assets?q=%22Healthcare%20Cybersecurity%20Guide%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Healthcare Cybersecurity Guide<\/a>, the independent report <a href=\"https:\/\/partners.sophos.com\/prm\/English\/s\/assets?q=%22The%20State%20of%20Ransomware%20in%20Healthcare%202021%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2021<\/a> and promotional materials like email templates and PowerPoint decks to educate your customers and promote Sophos solutions.<\/footer>\n<footer><a href=\"https:\/\/partners.sophos.com\/prm\/English\/c\/securing-healthcare-campaign\">Access marketing campaign materials<\/a><\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use this Sophos marketing campaign to explain the many ways in which Sophos can help healthcare organizations stay secure without slowing down the delivery of vital services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":3252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,21],"coauthors":[98],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","tag-campaigns","tag-threats-malware"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/featured-image-securing-healthcare-partner-news-icon-1600x960px.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}