{"id":224162,"date":"2026-03-16T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/why-cybersecurity-is-now-critical-care-intelligent-ciso\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:20:10","slug":"why-cybersecurity-is-now-critical-care-intelligent-ciso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/why-cybersecurity-is-now-critical-care-intelligent-ciso\/","title":{"rendered":"why cybersecurity is now critical care \u2013 Intelligent CISO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentciso.com\/2026\/03\/16\/healthcare-under-attack-why-cybersecurity-is-now-critical-care\/\">why cybersecurity is now critical care \u2013 Intelligent CISO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentciso.com\/2026\/03\/16\/healthcare-under-attack-why-cybersecurity-is-now-critical-care\/\">https:\/\/www.intelligentciso.com\/2026\/03\/16\/healthcare-under-attack-why-cybersecurity-is-now-critical-care\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-16 08:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.intelligentciso.com\">www.intelligentciso.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Africa\u2019s healthcare sector is facing a silent emergency. Many healthcare operators, facilities and doctors across Africa already grapple with the challenges of under-resourced environments, an uneven distribution of resources and massive demand for services.<\/p>\n<p>Kerissa Varma, Microsoft\u2019s Chief Security Advisor for Africa, explains how healthcare administrators must turn their attention to a relatively new and extremely urgent concern. While doctors fight to save lives, cybercriminals are infiltrating hospitals, laboratories and clinics, turning life-saving environments into digital battlegrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Kerissa Varma, Microsoft\u2019s Chief Security Advisor for Africa<\/p>\n<p><strong>A growing epidemic<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recent attacks have exposed the fragility of Africa\u2019s medical infrastructure. In May\u00a02025\u00a0Mediclinic Southern Africa was hit by a cyber extortion cyberattack compromising sensitive HR data. Later in 2025 Lancet Laboratories faced a regulatory penalty for\u00a0failing to notify\u00a0patients about data breaches under South Africa\u2019s POPIA law, while a ransomware strike on the National Health Laboratory Service disrupted blood test processing nationwide, delaying critical care for millions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>M-Tiba, a Kenyan digital health platform managed by\u00a0CarePay\u00a0and backed by Safaricom, suffered a significant cyberattack and data breach in late 2025, while earlier this year Pharmacie.ma, a Moroccan pharmaceutical platform, was reportedly the target of an alleged data leak incident involving the\u00a0unauthorised\u00a0export of a customer database. Recent research\u00a0indicates\u00a0that Nigeria\u2019s private healthcare sector is now one of the most targeted on the African continent with attacks increasing at an alarming rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many incidents also go unreported as hospitals and healthcare facilities rarely\u00a0disclose\u00a0them publicly. These incidents are not isolated, with ransomware dominating the\u00a0threat\u00a0landscape. Africa\u2019s healthcare sector is heavily targeted by cybercriminals with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentciso.com\/2026\/03\/16\/healthcare-under-attack-why-cybersecurity-is-now-critical-care\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>why cybersecurity is now critical care \u2013 Intelligent CISO https:\/\/www.intelligentciso.com\/2026\/03\/16\/healthcare-under-attack-why-cybersecurity-is-now-critical-care\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-16 08:14:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.intelligentciso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/03\/Untitled.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,57],"class_list":["post-224162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224164,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224162\/revisions\/224164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}