How to protect against cyberattacks

Online criminals are increasingly targeting healthcare providers – more so than any other industry – so what is the best way to defend your organisation's valuable data and prevent costly disruptions?

Hospitals are especially affected by cyberattacks, which try to steal patients' personal information while also causing havoc to day-to-day operations and putting people's health at risk.

However, cyber liability insurance provides
protection against the costs inflicted by such cybercrimes, including hacking,
cyber theft, denial of service, ransom attacks and data breach.

It covers the costs to the business as well
as the liability to third parties and potentially any fines associated with the
release of data.

Cyberattacks usually take organisations by
surprise, especially if they do not have a response plan in place, but our
dedicated team at Gow-Gates Insurance Brokers can guide you safely through the
recovery process.

Our insurance policies pay for forensic
investigators to provide assistance and advice from the moment you suspect
wrongdoing of a cyberattack to the completion of a claim.

At Gow-Gates we believe our ability to
respond in your times of need is what separates us from our competitors.

So how does it work? This is our five-step
solution from incident to recovery:

• Healthcare organisation suffers

a cyberattack.

• Healthcare organisation

notifies Gow-Gates Insurance Brokers of incident via telephone.

• Healthcare organisation

notifies insurer of incident via Cyber notification app – within one minute of
doing so, you will receive a call from a consultant at our Incident Response
Centre.

• Response management – within

one hour of reporting an incident, healthcare organisation will be contacted by
an Incident Response Manager.

• Recovery – with an expert panel

of vendors working to contain the incident, the Incident Response Team will
support you through the recovery of your business activities.

Talk to //www.gowgates.com.au/businesses-organisations/services/cyber-risk/[Gow-Gates Insurance Brokers] today.

Suzana Strbac: Director, Client Engagement – M: 0410 507 973; E: mailto:[]

David McDonald: Director of Broking – M: 0407 229 319; E: mailto:[]

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