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What is a Zero-Day Attack, How Can Healthcare Defend Against Them?

Zero-day attacks exploit unknown vulnerabilities often through malware. These covert cyberattacks can greatly damage healthcare organizations, as they manipulate flaws in systems as soon as they’re identified, leaving no time for patches. Mitigation includes web-application firewalls, runtime application self-protection agents, network segmentation, and vigilance in following guidance on emerging threats. Whilst taking mitigative action can be challenging, not doing so can lead to data breaches, service interruption and potential harm to patients.

Source: www.techtarget.com –

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