Healthcare organizations must rigorously protect PHI in the cloud due to increasing cyber threats. Ransomware attacks in healthcare surged by 650% year-over-year, and the average cost of a healthcare data breach reached $9.2 million — up nearly 30% from 2020. Additionally, healthcare breaches are significantly more expensive than those in other industries, costing an average of $408 per compromised record, compared to the cross‑industry average of $148.
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