Hackers Frequently Target Healthcare and Finance Orgs

When a ransomware attack hits a hospital or bank, it's not just company data or customer emails that are vulnerable. These organizations have access to health records, valuable intellectual property, and bank accounts. 

Bad actors know how valuable this data is, and our new survey reveals that the organizations with this data are at high risk of cyberattacks. Nearly half (48%) of professionals in highly regulated industries like health care and finance say their organization has experienced a major cyberattack, like a ransomware attack or data breach. 

It's vital that organizations with access to highly sensitive data have ironclad cybersecurity to protect that information. For these companies, a data leak could have serious ethical, legal, and regulatory implications.

But our survey of 461 people shows that, even though most health care and financial organizations expect a cyberattack in the next year, many don't have the security measures in place to manage an attack. 

48% of professionals in highly regulated industries like health care, finance, accounting, and legal say their organization has experienced a major cyberattack, like a ransomware attack or data breach.

58% say their organization's top cybercrime-related concern is data breaches or intellectual property theft, the most common response of any kind of cybercrime.

93% of people believe their organization will face a cyberattack in the next 12 months

However, 52% say their organization is fully prepared for major cyberattacks. 

45% believe their IT or security team repeatedly deprioritizes security tasks due to competing operational demands. 

Large banks with hefty cybersecurity budgets are attacked more than other orgs