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Conti’s Ransomware Toll on the Healthcare Industry

Krebs on Security

A survey published in February by email security provider Proofpoint found almost 60 percent of victims hit by ransomware paid their extortionists. While Conti is just one of many ransomware groups threatening the healthcare industry, it seems likely that ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector are underreported.

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Ransomware accounts for 54% of cyber threats in the health sector

Security Affairs

Most of the surveyed organisations (73%) in the health sector haven’t a program to mitigate ransomware attacks. 42% of incidents reported targeted hospitals, while health authorities, bodies and agencies accounted for 14%, and the pharmaceutical industry for 9%.

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Encryption – A Feasible Savior against Prevalent Privacy Issues in Business Communication

Security Affairs

What’s more, threatening about ransomware is that according to a survey conducted by Pwnie Express , almost half of the 582 surveyed individuals agreed that they didn’t have any means to prevent a ransomware attack. Ransomware isn’t the only existing digital disaster. Final Thoughts.

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Q&A: How AI, digital transformation are shaking up revenue management in high tech, life sciences

The Last Watchdog

Model N’s 2019 State of Revenue Report surveyed CEOs, CMOs and senior sales executives from leading pharmaceutical, medical devices, high-tech manufacturing and semiconductor companies. The top-tier companies in our survey have been able to reduce revenue leakage and improve their cross-selling capabilities.

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Metadata Management, Data Governance and Automation

erwin

One global pharmaceutical giant reduced costs by 70 percent and generated 95 percent of production code with “zero touch.” Help Us Help You by Taking a Brief Survey. Click here to take the brief survey. . • Cross-platform support of scripting languages and data movement technologies.

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Digital Signatures 101 – Drivers, Barriers, and User Research

AIIM

Reduce Interrupted Processes : When asked about the use of workflow and automated processes, 58% of AIIM survey respondents indicated that they are or would like to use workflow to automate signing tasks. However, these industries are also highly regulated, and therefore, many have concerns over the legality of Digital Signatures.

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How to protect healthcare and life-sciences data from a cyber attack pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

According to analyst firm IDC , 93% of pharmaceutical companies and 72% of biotech companies already have business-critical applications in the cloud, including product lifecycle management, analytics, revenue management, and much more. The healthcare and life science industries embrace of digitalization has been all-encompassing.