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HEALTHCARE CYBER RESILIENCE REPORT

Is your recovery plan ready for today's threats, and the emerging ones still ahead? New research reveals what most healthcare organizations are missing.
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The world changed. Recovery plans haven’t.

Material cyberattacks are becoming more frequent

78% of healthcare in the past 12 months, up from 66% the year before.

Attacks are also becoming more complex

AI and autonomous agents create new risks. A growing web of connected clinical, third-party, and cloud systems widens their reach.

Most recovery plans aren't built for this kind of pressure 

They assume incidents are understood, dependencies are mapped, and recovery is predictable.

The 5th annual Cohesity Global Cyber Resilience Report, conducted by Vanson Bourne, surveyed 400 IT and security leaders in the healthcare sector across 12 countries to reveal how those plans hold up under real pressure.

Outdated assumptions are still shaping recovery plans

Respondents who experienced a material cyberattack in the last 12 months

Assumption

83%

assume incidents can be fully contained before recovery begins.

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Reality

64%

saw the scope expand beyond their initial assessment.

Assumption

82%

assume dependencies are mapped clearly enough to sequence recovery accurately in advance. 

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Reality

65%

found moderate to significant gaps in dependencies they hadn't accounted for. 

Assumption

88%

assume once core systems are restored, business operations can safely resume.

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Reality

73%

experienced delays in resuming normal business operations, even after core systems were restored.

Minimum Viable Entity (MVE):
defined in advance, not assumed

A Minimum Viable Entity is the smallest set of clinical and operational capabilities — emergency care, medication administration, patient records access — a healthcare organization must keep running while broader recovery continues. It's a defined operating model about what matters most, decided before a crisis hits.

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22 percent
Only 16% have formally documented and tested an MVE.
66 percent
71% haven’t validated that their MVE would perform as intended during a cyberattack.
78 percent
78% say their cyber recovery plan is more focused on restoring systems than maintaining critical patient care operations during recovery

AI is the next frontier for cyber resilience in healthcare

AI is becoming more capable and more embedded in clinical and operational workflows — from diagnostic support to scheduling to documentation. That's introducing risks recovery plans haven't yet accounted for, from the AI already in use today to the more capable models still to come.

0%

are not very confident they can verify AI model integrity after an incident.
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0%

are not well prepared to detect or contain unintended actions by AI agents or workflows.
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0%

say their recovery plan would require moderate or significant changes to withstand cyberattacks accelerated by frontier AI models.
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