HITRUST to Launch First Comprehensive Study of Targeted Cyber Threats Impacting Healthcare Industry

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FRISCO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HITRUST announced today that it is undertaking the first empirical and comprehensive study, called HITRUST Cyber Discovery, to analyze the methods, severity and pervasiveness of cyber threats targeting a variety of healthcare organizations. The study will enable a better understanding of the actual magnitude, complexity, relations of cyber-attacks, commonalities of target organizations and data, and degree of cyber threats persisting within organizations. The goal is to accurately identify attack patterns and persistence, as well as the magnitude and sophistication of specific threats across enterprises.