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Resilience Obstacles in the Healthcare Industry

Discover gaps limiting your organization’s ability to prevent cyber threats.

Resilience Obstacles in the Healthcare Industry

Healthcare Resilience in 2025: Uncover the Biggest Obstacles​

Cyber resilience is more than just cybersecurity. Healthcare organizations must be able to withstand and recover quickly from cyberattacks, IT disruptions, and compliance risks. At the core of resilience are mission-critical security controls and business applications, the frontline of a healthcare organization’s IT infrastructure. Keeping them operational is essential to protecting patient care and maintaining trust.

Yet, many organizations face persistent challenges. Missing security controls, delayed patching, and the rise of Shadow AI create gaps that weaken resilience. The 2025 Healthcare Resilience Risk Index, based on telemetry from over a million healthcare endpoints, provides critical insights into these risks and outlines actionable steps to strengthen security and ensure rapid recovery.

Key Highlights:

  • 15% of healthcare PCs lack required security controls: Missing endpoint protection, vulnerability management, and encryption tools leave devices exposed
  • 48-day average delay in patching critical vulnerabilities: While improved from 77 days in 2024, this gap remains a significant security risk
  • Unsecured AI usage on healthcare devices: Widespread visits to ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms, some of which are not HIPAA compliant, introduce new data security concerns.

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Cyber resilience isn’t just about defense—it’s about ensuring security operations can withstand threats and recover fast. Download the 2025 Healthcare Resilience Risk Index to uncover the biggest security gaps and get actionable strategies to strengthen your healthcare cybersecurity.

Cyber Resilience is a paradigm that extends beyond traditional cybersecurity. It's about ensuring that your digital operations, which are the heart of your organization, can withstand and quickly recover from cyberattacks, technical malfunctions, deliberate tampering, and new deployments.

Christy Wyatt - CEO, Absolute Security
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Resilience Obstacles in the Healthcare Industry

Discover gaps limiting your organization’s ability to prevent cyber threats.

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The Absolute® Platform leverages a cloud-based, highly-available and secure multi-tenant architecture that is available across different regions. It’s comprised of a variety of foundational components that power Absolute product features that are being leveraged by the company’s enterprise customers and ecosystems partners (e.g., independent software vendors, original equipment manufacturers, or managed service providers) alike.

Other foundational components of the Absolute Platform that enable the Absolute Secure Endpoint™ and Secure Access™ products are as follows:

  • Web console
  • Mobile app
  • Rules and policy engine
  • Alerts
  • Dashboards
  • APIs
  • Application Persistence-as-a-Service SDK
  • Third-party integrations (e.g., SIEM, ITSM)

Cyber Resilience is a paradigm that extends beyond traditional cybersecurity. It's about ensuring that your digital operations, which are the heart of your organization, can withstand and quickly recover from cyberattacks, technical malfunctions, deliberate tampering, and new deployments.

Christy Wyatt - CEO, Absolute Security