Every healthcare company relies on external suppliers to activate services and to process, transmit or store their data, and every one of those relationships creates risk.
When any supplier suffers a ransomware or security incident, all of the healthcare organization's constituents, including patients, customers and affiliated organizations, bear the consequences: financial exposure, downtime, embarrassment and even regulatory action.
In this commentary for SC Media, Robert Eikel, CISO at PNT Data Corp., lists the risk questions every healthcare CISO should ask suppliers to avoid data breaches, downtime and regulatory fallout.