"As Health Sector Grapples With Ransomware, a Search for Better Incident Data"

In recent years, there have been a lot of ransomware infections, which have forced healthcare organizations across the U.S. to confront their security weaknesses. Yet largely missing from the equation has been a reliable and thorough set of public data on healthcare ransomware incidents that tracks things like payouts, the number of victims, and strains of malware. There is a new push to create an open source data set with information pertaining to rasnomware attacks on healthcare organizations.  This dataset will have to be updated daily, since healthcare organizations are affected by ransomware frequently. 

Cyberscoop reports: "As Health Sector Grapples With Ransomware, a Search for Better Incident Data"