For-profit versus non-profit cybersecurity posture: breach types and locations in healthcare organisations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The implementation of emerging technologies has resulted in an increase of data breaches in healthcare organisations, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health information and cybersecurity managers need to understand if, and to what extent, breach types and locations are associated with their organisation's business type.

Objective

To investigate if breach type and breach location are associated with business type, and if so, investigate how these factors affect information systems and protected health information in for-profit versus non-profit organisations.

Method

The quantitative study was performed using chi-square tests for association and post-hoc comparison of column proportions analysis on an archival data set of reported healthcare data bre

SUBMITTER: Ignatovski M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11403923 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature