The Reality of Incident Response Readiness in Healthcare
Incident response should never be reactive. Incident Response readiness must be proactive and measurable, driven by a real commitment to continuous improvement. As management guru Peter Drucker famously said, “If you can measure it, you can improve it.” Yet at many healthcare organizations, Incident Response is static and disorganized: plans that have never been adequately […]
Preparation Changes Outcomes In Ransomware Attacks
In our latest webinar, we conducted a Red Team/Blue Team post-mortem on a real ransomware attack that occurred last year at Frederick Health Medical Group in Maryland. The system has more than 4,000 clinicians and staff across 25 locations. The Frederick Health attack exposed more than 900,000 patient records and hampered operations for a number […]
How to Build a Resilient Ransomware Defense Program in Healthcare
Ransomware attacks on health care institutions are attacks on people. System outages can block access to medication lists, x-rays or other imagery that doctors rely on to provide both routine and urgent care. In fact, an independent study published in February 2026 by the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy found that “Among patients already admitted […]