HealthcareCISO

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an advisory April 27 warning organizations to apply timely patches and implement a centralized patch management system to reduce their risk of compromise from the most common cyber vulnerabilities exploited by malicious cyber criminals in 2021 and 2020.

Here are six things to know:

1. In 2021, malicious cyber criminals targeted internet-facing systems, such as email servers and virtual private networks.

2. The advisory included 15 of the most exploited vulnerabilities.

3. Top of the list was...