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Insiders Pose Biggest Security Threat to Healthcare Industry

Insiders pose the biggest security threat to healthcare organizations, according to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report.

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By Fred Donovan

- Insiders pose the biggest security threat to healthcare organizations, according to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).

A disturbing 60 percent of data breaches involved insiders, including doctors and nurses, 42 percent involved external actors, 4 percent involved partners, and 3 percent involved multiple parties, the report found.  

“With internal actors, the main problem is that they have already been granted access to your systems in order to do their jobs,” the report observed.