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The Prescription To Secure Endpoints In Healthcare Is IGEL OS

Citrix News, March 29th, 2023

In 2022, 25 percent of ransomware attacks targeted healthcare organizations. This equates to more than 300 hospitals that were hit with ransomware, resulting in compromised personal health data of nearly 630,000 patients.

Security is top of mind for all IT professionals, and it is especially critical to the protection of patient health information, where the target on healthcare IT looms large, and the financial repercussions of failure looms even larger.

To stave off these threats, healthcare IT teams work constantly to ensure that personal data is kept secure, but often these security measures get in the way of providing a great user experience. After all, clinicians want to spend their valuable time assisting patients, not wrestling with dual-factor authentication! Today's healthcare provider wants fast, complete, and secure access to the data and tools they need to deliver the best care possible.

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