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300,000 Records Found at Hospital Slated for Demolition

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • August 8, 2018

Documents containing information on more than 300,000 patients were recently discovered on the former campus of a Missouri hospital that's being prepared for demolition four years after the hospital moved to new facilities. The incident illustrates the need to track all paper records that contain PHI.

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Industry Brief: ThreatQ for Healthcare

August 6, 2018

Healthcare organizations are attractive targets for today's hackers due to reams of personal information providers process and store. These electronic health records are like digital gold to adversaries who sell them on the black market. Download the ThreatQ for Healthcare Industry Brief to learn: The key challenges...

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You've Been Breached - Now What? How Healthcare Oganizations Should Respond

May 10, 2018

Finding out your healthcare organization has been breached can be devastating news. Knowing how to deal with an intruder who has broken through your cyber defenses can be even more challenging. This whitepaper offers practical steps healthcare IT and security professionals should take after a cyberattack occurs....

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This Year's Global Threat Report: What to Know for 2019

April 3, 2018

The year's CrowdStrike® Global Threat Report offers one of the industry's most comprehensive reports on today's most damaging cyberattacks and dangerous adversaries. It contains valuable insights into the evolving threat landscape and includes recommendations that will help you be better prepared for the security...

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How the NIST Framework Can Be Used to Assist, But Not Ensure, Cybersecurity and Compliance

Iliana Peters • December 19, 2017

The healthcare industry is at an information security crossroads, ill-prepared for the cyberattacks increasingly targeting it. This session reviews how the focus on security regulatory compliance has hindered the sectors' ability to prevent, detect and respond to the current cyberthreat landscape. It also reviews how...

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Take Inventory of Your Medical Device Security Risks

Ashwin Krishnan , Christopher Logan • December 6, 2017

With the advent of technology in personal healthcare - Internet-connected glucose monitors, intravenous blood pressure monitoring, personal 'best friend' emotional bots - there is a lot of highly sensitive data that is rampantly traversing the airwaves. And the impact of this data getting in the wrong hands is just...

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Cybersecurity and Patient Privacy in Healthcare: The Balancing Act

Jennings Aske , Steve Chabinsky , Joshua Corman , Mark Eggleston , Marianne Kolbasuk McGee , Dave Summitt • October 4, 2017

How do you balance privacy with data exchange among clinicians, access for patients and medical breakthroughs for researchers? This session examines whether there's a "right balance" for protecting patients' confidentiality, bolstering cybersecurity and providing individuals with access to their own health data, while...

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Healing From "Ransomwaricis" - Immunizing Connected Medical Devices

Ariel Shuper • October 4, 2017

Ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations threaten vulnerable systems that are part of a larger ecosystem. The fast propagation of ransomware attacks creates significant damage spanning beyond the infected systems, often resulting in the shutting down of healthcare operations. While cybersecurity ecosystems...

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Medical Devices: Treat Them Like Untrusted End-User Devices

Jennings Aske , Marianne Kolbasuk McGee , Dave Nathans , Dale Nordenberg, MD , Suzanne Schwartz, Director for Strategic Partnerships & Technology Innovation at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA , Steven W. Teppler • October 4, 2017

Protecting end-user devices is an essential part of any information security strategy. But many healthcare organizations have literally thousands of connected medical devices - from infusion pumps to heart monitors - used in patient treatment that can be vulnerable, opening the door to a broader cyberattack....

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Why Does Healthcare Resist Strong Authentication?

Jennings Aske , Jay Kramer , Randy Vanderhoof • October 4, 2017

When it comes to authentication, usernames and passwords still dominate in healthcare, despite experts urging the implementation of multifactor authentication. That's due, in part, to the pressure of providing busy clinicians quick and easy access to patient information. If authentication is cumbersome, physicians,...

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What's the Next Breach that No One Anticipates? From Ransomware to IoT

Vikrant Arora , Mark Eggleston , David Houlding , Marianne Kolbasuk McGee , Steven W. Teppler • October 4, 2017

Ransomware has already crippled the ability of some targeted healthcare organizations to access patient records, interrupting delivery of care for days. But will the next iteration of malware attacks bring even more disruption, and perhaps have an even more devastating impact on patients? Cyberattacks involving...

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Protecting Healthcare: An Immune System for Cyber Defense

Justin Fier • October 3, 2017

The 2017 WannaCry global ransomware attack was a wake-up call for all industries - especially healthcare. Over the past several years, the healthcare industry has become heavily targeted by cyberattackers because patient records are a treasure trove of valuable information that remains valid for years. But beyond...

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The Evolving Regulatory Environment and Its Impact on Privacy and Security of Online Medical Records

Vikrant Arora , Marianne Kolbasuk McGee , Mitch Parker , Iliana Peters • October 3, 2017

Data protection legislation and regulatory enforcement actions are rapidly changing throughout the world, having an immediate impact on how organizations globally approach cybersecurity, privacy, breach notification and data storage and protection. Too frequently, however, U.S. healthcare organizations have built...

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Cybersecurity and Healthcare: What Clinicians Need to Know to Protect Patient Privacy and Safety

Jack Lewin • September 25, 2017

As information security threats intensify, organizations' risk management tasks are becoming disoriented - focused more on grappling with complex technology, an explosion of data, increased regulation and a debilitating skills shortage. This is a huge danger, because prompt action is required to interpret an...

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The Art of Deception for Advanced Threat Detection in Healthcare Organizations

Carolyn Crandall • August 22, 2017

Healthcare providers have improved patient care, enhanced safety and increased PHI protection by adopting deception technology. Hear why deception is being adopted for its effectiveness and efficiency in detecting targeted stolen-credential, Active Directory and ransomware attacks. In this session, three healthcare...