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Is Zero Trust the Remedy to Healthcare’s Ransomware Epidemic?

HIT Consultant

In fact, the first-ever such attack targeted the industry in 1989 when 20,000 floppy disks infected with ransomware were given to those who attended the World Health Organization’s AIDS Conference. The pandemic only made the situation worse; it’s been a case of bad actors kicking the industry while it was already down.