Ron Pelletier, founder and chief customer officer at Pondurance, presented an Industry Partner Spotlight at Healthcare Innovation's California Summit on November 3 in Los Angeles, CA at the Sofitel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills. "When talking about healthcare, it's important to understand our attackers," Pelletier said, kicking off the presentation. "What are the motivations? Why am I at risk?" He continued to explain that when thinking about bad actors' motivations behind cyberattacks, a lot of them are simply financially driven. "When we think about a healthcare record and how data rich it is, you can put together a complete identity from it, it makes a lot of sense as to why these records would be stolen," he noted. Pelletier then brought up methods that bad actors use to get their hands on records or infiltrate organizations' networks. After making a quick joke about a show of hands to show how many people in the audience don't enjoy doing a show of hands, he said, "Most everyone in this room has received a phishing email. That's them [the bad actors] trying to get money. And it's a really simple way of getting into a network and very frequently used, and honestly, fallen for." Furthermore, Pelletier said, it doesn't matter what side an organization stands on issues like abortion or transgender care, there are so many hackers out there that they fall on both ends of the political spectrum.
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