Healthcare comprises a critical industry combining a large-scale use of converged IT and OT with a huge quantity of disparate OT devices dependent on IT control delivered over WiFi – and a very low tolerance for disruption. The industry is eminently exploitable and has a strong incentive to settle extortion attacks as quickly and as seamlessly as possible. Lives may depend upon it.

According to the FBI 2023 IC3 report, healthcare suffered 249 reported ransomware attacks during last year – 31 more than the second most attacked CNI sector (critical manufacturing), and more than double the reported attacks against financial services.