Healthcare is the most targeted industry for cyberattacks. Understanding the threats you face is the first step toward building effective defenses.
The data tells a clear story: healthcare organizations face persistent, costly, and growing cyber threats.
Understanding the motivations and methods of threat actors helps prioritize defenses.
Financially motivated criminal organizations that encrypt systems and demand payment. Healthcare is targeted because disruption of patient care creates extreme pressure to pay.
Attackers using AI to craft hyper-personalized phishing emails, generate polymorphic malware, and automate vulnerability discovery at scale.
State-sponsored groups targeting healthcare for espionage, intellectual property theft, or geopolitical leverage. Highly sophisticated and patient.
Unauthorized AI usage in healthcare isn't hypothetical — it's happening now, and most organizations have no visibility into it.
Staff use consumer AI tools for clinical documentation, coding, and research without organizational awareness or Business Associate Agreements.
When staff paste patient information into ChatGPT or Claude, that data may be stored, analyzed, or used to train future AI models — with no way to retrieve or delete it.
Using AI without a Business Associate Agreement is a HIPAA violation. The OCR has explicitly stated that AI tools processing PHI require BAAs.
Attackers now use AI to craft personalized phishing emails that reference real patients, appointments, and procedures — making them nearly indistinguishable from legitimate communications.
No organization can prevent every attack. But every organization can build resilience — the ability to detect, respond, and recover.
Real-time detection of unauthorized AI usage, suspicious network activity, and anomalous behavior patterns.
Multiple defensive layers so that if one control fails, others remain. Network segmentation, access controls, encryption, and endpoint protection working together.
Documented, tested plans for when — not if — an incident occurs. Clear roles, communication protocols, and recovery procedures.
Your staff are both your greatest vulnerability and your strongest defense. Regular, practical training transforms them into sensors, not targets.
Immutable, tested backups are the most effective ransomware defense. If you can restore quickly, the ransom demand loses its power.
Your security is only as strong as your weakest vendor. Business Associate Agreements, security assessments, and continuous monitoring of third-party risk.
Velari's security assessment identifies the specific threats facing your organization and provides a prioritized roadmap for building resilience. Know where you stand before attackers find out.