This report begins with the following statement, “Among all of America’s critical infrastructures, the healthcare sector is the most targeted and plagued by perpetual persistent attacks from numerous unknown malicious hackers, intent on exploiting vulnerabilities in their insecure and antiquated networks in order to exfiltrate patient health records.” The paper then goes on to discuss the IT struggles of the healthcare sector.

This report uses the impact of the Mirai botnet, to help stakeholders prevent future incidents by addressing the lack of security-by-design in the Internet-of-things and in the Internet itself.