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Defending hospitals against life-threatening cyberattacks

  • Written by Mohammad S. Jalali, Research Faculty, MIT Sloan School of Management
Is this device safe for use in a hospital?Guitar photographer/Shutterstock.com

Like any large company, a modern hospital has hundreds – even thousands – of workers using countless computers, smartphones and other electronic devices that are vulnerable to security breaches, data thefts and ransomware attacks. But hospitals are unlike...

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