CISO Brief April 2026: Cybersecurity Threat Recap & Key Insights
The high-profile cybersecurity incident at Stryker last month was a sharp reminder that cybersecurity events do not need to directly impact connected medical devices to still disrupt patient care. On March 11, Stryker disclosed a cyberattack that caused a global disruption to parts of its Microsoft environment, affecting order processing, manufacturing, and shipping. While the […]
CISO Brief, March 2026: Geopolitical Tensions and Cyber Vigilance
Operational resilience is being tested at the seams. As we head into March, we continue to see the risk environment being defined through AI adoption pressures, emergency patching realities, and nation-state–aligned actors targeting critical infrastructure. Under the backdrop of increased geopolitical tensions with Iran, this month’s brief will discuss improving resilience through cyber vigilance and […]
February 2026 CISO Brief: Privacy Deadlines, Clinical Impact, and Persistent Attack Paths
As healthcare organizations move closer to the February 16, 2026, compliance deadline for the updated 42 CFR Part 2 requirements, they are doing so in an environment defined by persistent ransomware activity, slow remediation of known exploited vulnerabilities, expanding clinical attack surfaces, and growing use of unmanaged technologies. This month’s Brief focuses on how these […]
CISO Brief: 7 Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026
In 2026, healthcare cybersecurity is shifting from reacting to crises toward building resilience that endures. Innovation, regulation, and collaboration are accelerating, and healthcare leaders across the sector are meeting this moment with renewed clarity and purpose. These seven healthcare cybersecurity predictions reflect how our industry is defending smarter, working together more intentionally, and rethinking what […]
CISO Brief: A Look Back at Healthcare Cybersecurity in 2025, A Year Defined by Disruption
As 2025 comes to a close, it’s impossible not to view the year through a wide-angle lens. Healthcare cybersecurity in 2025 did not follow a clean, predictable arc. Instead, it delivered a series of sharp turns, unexpected pivots, and both hard-earned wins and hard-learned lessons. If 2024 felt volatile, 2025 reaffirmed that volatility is now the default operating […]
August 2025 CISO Brief: Policy, Funding, and the Path Forward
How federal staffing cuts, government restructuring, and Medicaid policy shifts threaten the cybersecurity posture of our healthcare system. In a recent set of Questions for the Record (QFRs), Senator Edward Markey highlighted growing vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity infrastructure supporting the U.S. healthcare system. These questions, submitted to the Senate HELP Committee, signal urgent concern over […]
CISO Brief: October 2025 Cybersecurity Threat Recap & Insight
October delivered two wake-up calls for healthcare cybersecurity leaders: a critical WSUS remote-code execution flaw that exposed update-chain integrity and a major AWS US-EAST-1 outage that disrupted global services for hours. Together, they underscored a single truth—even trusted infrastructure and cloud providers can become a single point of failure. This month’s CISO Brief for October […]
CISO Brief: August 2025 Cybersecurity Threat Recap & Fall Outlook
August 2025 underscored a reality for healthcare cybersecurity leaders: AI is an asset and an attack surface. This past month, we witnessed some notable AI realities, including early warning signs of “AI fatigue” as enterprises struggle to realize the promised efficiencies. This month’s themes highlight two sides of the same coin: adversaries weaponizing AI to […]
April 2025 CISO Brief: Behind the Cyber Threat Headlines
Fortified’s Threat Services Team tracks the most pressing cyber threats targeting the healthcare sector each month. April’s activity surrounding PipeMagic ransomware, Oracle’s dual breach allegations, and the news regarding the DaVita ransomware attack illuminate a stark reality: the healthcare sector is under sustained siege from sophisticated threat actors intensifying their focus on healthcare’s legacy systems, […]
CISO Brief: May 2025 Recap – Ransomware Trends, Endpoint Evasion, and the Kettering Health Breach
In our CISO Brief looking at May 2025, we saw threat actors sharpening their techniques and targeting healthcare organizations in ways that challenge our traditional security assumptions. New endpoint evasion tactics, a shift in ransomware strategy targets, and the ransomware group that targeted DaVita may have struck again. This time, it was a different healthcare […]