Healthcare organizations are accepting cyber risk to cut costs

Healthcare organizations are cutting cybersecurity budgets under financial pressure even as the threats targeting their systems intensify. A PwC survey of 381 global healthcare executives, conducted between May and July 2025, puts numbers to the gap between the risks the sector faces and the controls it has in place. Key findings (Source: PwC) Data protection ranks as the single biggest driver of cybersecurity spending in the sector, yet only 35% of healthcare organizations have implemented …