[vc_row][vc_column][column_text]Hacking, phishing and ransomeware were already familiar to healthcare. In late January, the sector also suffered a major DDoS attack. A still unknown number of Dutch hospitals, including UMCG and MUMC+, saw their own sites go down for a short or long time after being overloaded with digital data. How vulnerable are healthcare organizations and what can they do to fend off DDoS attacks?
Distributed Denial of Service attacks are about as old as the Internet itself. So why hospitals have had to deal with the phenomenon just now? "With the war in Ukraine, the digital threat landscape has changed," observes Jort Kollerie, strategic advisor at Orange Cyberdefense. "There are groups trying to put pressure on Western society with DDoS attacks."
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