Unitedhealth Group CISO: We Had To 'Start Over' After Change Healthcare Attack
CIO, Thursday, September 19th, 2024
Steven Martin, CISO, detailed the work that went into recovering from February's ransomware attack, emphasizing that the mental toll was the toughest part of all.
UnitedHealth Group is still in the recovery process months after a ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare subsidiary, with its chief information security officer saying the company has essentially 'started over' with regard to its computer systems.
'When I say start over, I really, truly mean start over,' Steven Martin said Thursday at the Mandiant Worldwide Information Security Exchange (mWISE). 'The only thing that we kept from the old environment into the new environment was the cables. New routers, new switches, new compute infrastructure, deployed everything from a safe environment, truly started over. I felt like that was the only way that we could really ensure that we ended up with something that we could stand behind for the health care space, because it's what it deserved.'