Targeting Trust: Lessons From the Stryker Cyberattack for Healthcare

The cyberattack on medical technology company Stryker in March reveals how cyber conflict is evolving. Endpoints, malware and data breaches dominate threat coverage. But this incident points to a deeper shift: Attackers are increasingly targeting the systems that establish and manage trust itself. This incident shows a broader shift we’re seeing across the threat universe: Identity and the systems that manage it have become the new attack surface. In cases like this, attackers aren’t just targeting individual endpoints; they’re going after the management planes that establish trust across…