SonicWall Research Sounds Code Red on Healthcare Cybersecurity as Attack Rates Refuse to Decline
SonicWall today released its 2026 Healthcare Protect Brief, a vertical-specific companion to the SonicWall 2026 Cyber Protect Report, revealing that healthcare cybersecurity remains the most persistently targeted industry in SonicWall’s global telemetry, and that the gap between healthcare and every other sector is widening, not closing.
While attack volumes across most verticals declined between 17% and 56% year-over-year, healthcare recorded the smallest decline of any tracked industry. The finding is not simply that healthcare is heavily targeted – it’s because attackers are less willing to leave healthcare than anywhere else.
“Healthcare is the most targeted industry for several reasons, and none of them are accidental,” said Michael Crean, SonicWall SVP of Managed Services.“What our research makes clear is that attackers have done the math. Hospitals cannot go dark, downtime is measured in patient outcomes and the pressure to pay is unlike anything in any other sector....
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