These web facing applications are more prone to different types of attacks and vulnerabilities when compared to the traditional in house systems. Web facing application have been increasingly attacked these days as the data stored in them are a lot more valuable and critical to the users.
Researchers state that as digitization has happened rapidly over the last few years so has the cost we had to pay for each data breach. It has increased to nearly four times the estimated cost in 2015.
Thus security is becoming one of the top most concerns in the healthcare organizations as the data involved in it is highly confidential and critical. The organizations are doing their best to secure their web services to ensure that the data breach never happens again.