Wide Ranging Impact of A Healthcare Cybersecurity Attack

David Chou recently shared this amazing graphic of the “above the surface” and “beneath the surface” impacts from cyber attacks. The above the surface attacks are those that are better know costs related to an incident. The beneath the surface attacks are the less visible or hidden costs of a cyber attack.

Which of these impacts concerns you most?

If this list of 14 impacts on your organization isn’t enough to wake you up to the importance of cybersecurity, then there isn’t much hope. However, most of the CIOs I’ve seen are well aware of this and it’s why it keeps them up at night.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

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