Hospitals and medical practices are being attacked and subjected to demands for payment by what’s called “ransomware”. Hillary Clinton’s private email server, the DNC’s email, and computers of the Clinton campaign have all been hacked.
There are common threads running through these. The first is obvious enough. The higher the value of the target, the more likely it is to be subjected to sustained and repeated attacks.
The others may not be as obvious. Paradoxically, securing your network requires trust. You’ve got to trust some genuinely knowledgeable person or team who probably is not part of your inner circle of friends. And you’ve got to follow their directions which requires a certain level of humility.
Trust and humility. The more valuable your information and the more arrogant and mistrustful you are, the more security risk you assume.
As a friend of mine once put it, ultimately the only way to keep people from knowing your secrets is not to have any.
Sitting at home right now I can pull up the records of my cases tomorrow and look for problems. Since I do all of the kids at one of our facilities, I review those weeks ahead of time, catching problems and getting them worked out. (Always fascinating to see what the pediatricians think is important and what is not.) This improves pt care quite a bit. However, that same accessibility means it is vulnerable. I don’t really see a good answer here that doesn’t involve spending lots of money, with uncertain returns.
Query- Why hasn’t someone hacked Trump’s tax returns? Does the IRS have especially good security?
Steve