CANCER waits for no one, nor does it care if a healthcare provider’s system has been shut down or hacked. When human lives are at stake, there usually isn’t much of a choice for healthcare entities once they’re hacked other than paying the ransom to restore operations.
Sky Lakes Medical Centre, however, was able to resist cashing out millions to cyber criminals who planted ransomware into its system – because it had been engaging Cohesity – an information technology company whose IT architecture helped the United States-based hospital recover the attack on its 600 servers within a few short days.
