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The Government Isn’t Sure How to Get Small Hospitals to Take Cybersecurity Seriously

In Data Breach News, Healthcare
September 07, 2023

The U.S. government is struggling to convince hospitals that they need to spend time and money fighting hackers and provide useful advice to them, a problem that could have lethal consequences as the country’s ransomware crisis rages on.

“I don’t think we’ve figured out how to talk to the small and medium-sized organizations in a way that actually reaches them, and I don’t think we’ve come up with a convincing story” about why cybersecurity matters, Jessica Wilkerson, a senior cyber policy adviser at the Food and Drug Administration, said Wednesday at the Billington Cyber Summit in Washington.

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