MITRE, the not-for-profit organization that works across governmental and federal agencies, as well as various industrial verticals and academia, has set up The Cyber Infrastructure Protection Innovation Center and The Clinical Insights Innovation Cell to protect healthcare.
Critical infrastructure, technology vendors, healthcare providers – they all have been high-profile ransomware victims in 2021, and you have every reason to believe your manufacturing organization could be next. What is at stake, and how specifically can an entity in your sector reduce risk and prepare a recovery...
In 2020, reports indicated that cyberattacks on the healthcare industry more than doubled from 2019, with
ransomware accounting for 28 percent of all attacks. Unlike previous attacks focused
primarily on providers, the COVID-19 pandemic
exposed vulnerabilities in the entire healthcare sector.
Attackers, especially...
A federal law signed earlier this year amending the HITECH Act could help incentivize many healthcare sector entities to bolster their cybersecurity programs, says federal adviser Erik Decker, CISO of Intermountain Health, who suggest other incentives, as well.
The global pandemic has transformed the way medical devices are utilized and data is shared with patients and medical practitioners. The proliferation of medical devices and data has created a playground for threat actors intent on wreaking havoc by stealing patient information, interrupting medical practices, or...
Today, healthcare organizations are adopting and leveraging more public cloud technologies to keep up with the demands of delivering modern healthcare and supporting the evolving connected health ecosystem. How should healthcare organizations incorporate data security practices to public cloud and SaaS applications...
The digital transformation occurring in healthcare has brought with it a wave of new information security and privacy considerations for hospitals and health systems and the technology companies that serve the industry. With third-party breaches at an all-time high, healthcare providers continue to increase their...
An Australian software engineer warns that he was able to create a fake digital COVID-19 vaccine certificate via the government's Express Medicare Plus app, and that the agency in charge has so far failed to acknowledge his bug report. He recommends Australia instead copy the EU's QR code system.
DuPage Medical Group in suburban Chicago has been smacked with a lawsuit following its recent "network outage" health data breach, which was reported to regulators as potentially affecting the protected health information of more than 655,000 individuals.. What are plaintiffs alleging?
After suffering a network systems outage that lasted at least a week in July, DuPage Medical Group, the largest multispeciality group practice in Illinois, is now reporting a data breach affecting more than 655,000 individuals.
Several ransomware incidents have been added to the federal tally of major health data breaches in recent weeks, with no signs of these attacks abating.
A hacking incident reportedly involving a Massachusetts-based vendor that provides HVAC systems to customers including several high-profile Boston-area hospitals shines another spotlight on the growing cybersecurity risks involving IoT devices and OT equipment.
Memorial Health System in Ohio is the latest healthcare entity to be hit with an apparent ransomware incident that is disrupting patient care services.
Legacy approaches to data security struggle to cope with the increased regulation and enhanced threat environment that healthcare organizations face because of the limitations imposed by their architectures, approaches, limited scope, and slow adoption of the modern methods required to keep healthcare organizations...
Healthcare went through five years of transformation over the course of 2020. How does this new telehealth focus most change how healthcare security leaders must view cybersecurity?
In an eBook with Information Security Media Group, Hank Schless of Lookout discusses:
Remote work;
Device security;
Visibility...
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