Breaches caused by healthcare system misconfiguration due to human error in cloud infrastructures have increased by 424 percent, according to an article on the Campus Safety website.
For instance, the University of Washington Medicine recently announced it had exposed the information of approximately one million patients because of the accidental removal of website server protections, again exposing files to indexing by search engines.
A 2017 IBM security report found that breaches caused by healthcare system misconfiguration due to human error in cloud infrastructures had increased by 424 percent.
One of the major causes is the complexity of systems as they migrate to the cloud or hybrid environments.
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