While cyberattacks and data breaches are rising across industries, healthcare is lagging behind in cybersecurity investment. Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Why It’s Not Enough, Why It Can’t Wait While cyberattacks and data breaches are rising across industries, healthcare is lagging behind in cybersecurity investment: Worldwide spending on IT security is projected to increase 34% from 2015 spend. The U.S. financial market is the largest market investing in cybersecurity, with a cumulative spend forecasted to exceed 68 billion between 2016-2020.Cybersecurity is approximately 16% of the federal IT budget for 2016.