{"id":264757,"date":"2026-06-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/infosecurity-europe-reactive-security-is-failing-healthcare-experts\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T06:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:40:10","slug":"infosecurity-europe-reactive-security-is-failing-healthcare-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/infosecurity-europe-reactive-security-is-failing-healthcare-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Infosecurity Europe: Reactive Security Is Failing Healthcare, Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/reactive-security-failing\/\">Infosecurity Europe: Reactive Security Is Failing Healthcare, Experts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/reactive-security-failing\/\">https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/reactive-security-failing\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-05 04:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.infosecurity-magazine.com\">www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Healthcare organizations (HCO) must embrace AI-powered tools to spot and contain threats faster, or continue to risk potentially fatal consequences for patients, experts have warned.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Infosecurity Europe on June 4, Cyber Salus CEO, Sher Baig, said HCOs across the globe face the same threats and operational constraints.<\/p>\n<p>Legacy infrastructure, hyper-connectivity and human fatigue are fomenting a perfect storm of risk, he argued. In rare cases, breaches can lead to patient fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there was ever an industry where the potential harm bad actors can do is directly correlated to human impact, it\u2019s healthcare,\u201d Baig told attendees.<\/p>\n<p>The sector is frequently described as the most targeted, with ransomware a particularly acute concern given its potential impact on clinical services.<\/p>\n<p>Some 93% of HCOs suffered at least one cyber-attack in 2025, with an average of 43 attacks per organization, up from 40 in 2024, according to Proofpoint research.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on healthcare security: A Quarter of Healthcare Organizations Report Medical Device Cyber-Attacks<\/p>\n<p>Connected devices such as infusion pumps, imaging systems, patient monitors and lab systems are particularly exposed, Baig said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn healthcare, you don\u2019t purchase medical equipment like an iPhone. These devices are in the field for 15 to 20 years running legacy operating systems,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Reactive approaches rooted in the past are failing HCOs, he argued \u2013 pointing to alert overload and time-consuming manual investigations. Discovering vulnerabilities after exposure and scrambling to assess and contain the risk is an increasingly unsustainable approach as AI collapses the exploit window.<\/p>\n<p>AI is not only helping threat actors to find and exploit vulnerabilities in legacy systems and networks faster than ever, it\u2019s also supercharging phishing.<\/p>\n<p>However, it can also arm defenders through continuous monitoring and analysis, faster anomaly detection and automated threat prioritization,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/reactive-security-failing\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infosecurity Europe: Reactive Security Is Failing Healthcare, Experts https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/reactive-security-failing\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-05 04:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.infosecurity-magazine.com\/webpage\/og\/1509ed4b-dcf3-4c2e-a9f7-224bd5e26c99.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,31,25],"class_list":["post-264757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-exploit","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264757"}],"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=264757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264759,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264757\/revisions\/264759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}