Healthcare organisations manage electronic protected health information across an attack surface that spans clinical workstations, IoT medical devices, telehealth platforms, payer interfaces, and cloud-hosted EHR systems — all subject to HIPAA Security Rule technical safeguards that explicitly require access controls, audit logging, and transmission encryption. Healthcare is the industry most frequently hit by ransomware, with average breach costs exceeding $10 million per incident, making Zero Trust segmentation and identity controls a clinical safety issue as much as a compliance requirement.
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