CHICAGO, December 2, 2025 (Newswire.com) – Black Book Market Research today announced the release of US Hospital Cyber Resilience 2026 – Volume 2: Identity, Insurance, and Incident Readiness , a free industry report that gives hospital and health system leaders a concrete playbook for managing cyber incidents originating in vendors, clouds, and AI platforms. The report is fully vendor-agnostic and advisory-firm neutral, does not recommend any specific providers, and is intended as a resource for strategic planning and action by hospital and health system leaders. Building on the earlier US Hospital Cyber Readiness 2026 (Volume 1) on upstream ransomware and kill-switch capabilities, this new report focuses on the structures that make fast, safe response possible: governance, identity and non-human access, infrastructure and devices, contracts, and cyber-insurance. It is written specifically for boards, CISOs, CIOs, CFOs, and administrators who need clear, defensible answers when asked, “How resilient are we to vendor and AI cyber events?”
“Hospital leaders are being asked to show more than a binder full of policies,” said Doug Brown of Black Book. “They have to prove they can detect and contain upstream vendor and AI-driven compromises in near real time, orchestrate identity, network, and data controls as a single control plane, and then walk regulators and boards through the evidence. This report gives them an AI-aware resilience blueprint: time-to-revoke, kill-switch coverage, non-human identities, and contractual levers that CISOs and CIOs can actually operationalize in the next 12 months.”
Drawing on Black Book’s surveys of U.S. hospital executives, CIOs, CISOs, and cyber leaders, US Hospital Cyber Resilience 2026 – Volume 2 organizes insights into four lenses that together define modern resilience in an AI and vendor-driven environment:
Frameworks & Governance
Identity & Non-Human Access
Workforce, Culture & Operating Model
Infrastructure, Devices & Third-Party/AI Ecosystem
The report is designed for health systems boards, and C-suite leaders, not just security practitioners, by turning complex cyber and AI risk into plain-language structures, metrics, and decisions. It provides:
A connected upstream resilience blueprint Actionable guidance on non-human identities and AI access Plain-English translation of contracts and insurance Board-ready KPIs and “evidence pack” expectations Immediately deployable tools
“This isn’t a theoretical framework or a technology shopping list,” Brown added. “It’s a leadership runbook. If a critical vendor or AI platform is compromised at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, this helps answer: who acts in the first hour, which identities, tunnels, and API calls get cut, which dashboards light up, and what proof you can put in front of your board, insurers, and regulators. It’s about turning resilience from an aspiration into a measurable operating discipline.”
Availability
US Hospital Cyber Resilience 2026 – Volume 2: Identity, Insurance, and Incident Readiness is available now as a free resource to U.S. hospitals and health systems. The report can be downloaded at: https://blackbookmarketresearch.com/us-hospital-cyber-resilience-2026
US Hospital Cyber Readiness 2026 – Volume 1 can also be downloaded at https://blackbookmarketresearch.com/us-hospital-cyber-readiness-2026 Both reports are provided at no charge to industry stakeholders through year end.
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