"External Threats Outpace Insider-Related Breaches in Healthcare"

According to the latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report  (DBIR), the healthcare sector faced an increase in attacks last year with external threats exceeding the number of incidents caused by insiders. Verizon's DBIR highlights findings from the analysis of 3,950 data breaches and 157,252 security incidents experienced by companies across 16 sectors in four different regions. The report revealed that 51% of healthcare data breaches were caused by external actors, while 48% were insider-related. However, healthcare organizations remain the most impacted by insider threats. The report also pointed out the top patterns behind healthcare data breaches in 2019, which include web application attacks, business email compromise, and the misdelivery of emails. This article continues to discuss the insider threats faced by the healthcare sector and how healthcare organizations can prevent insider-related breaches, along with healthcare's ransomware problem and the most common patterns observed with data breaches in 2019. 

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