The U.S. Department of Justice just indicted two alleged hackers in China in the highly sophisticated cyberattack on health insurer Anthem that exposed data on nearly 80 million Americans. Meanwhile, ransomware, business email compromises, intellectual property theft and other headline-grabbing breaches and...
More cloud? Definitely more goals. Healthcare technology leaders are in a constant struggle to do more with fewer resources. Is the organization's security strategy the root of the problem or an enabling factor to ensure patient safety while improving the quality of healthcare delivery? Come learn how to control the...
How do you find a needle in a haystack - whether it's a malicious insider or clues that a massive or devastating cyberattack could be underway? Our panel - including Mitch Parker, CISO at Indiana University Health System; and Jennings Aske, CISO NY Presbyterian - will discuss:
Challenges and approaches to breach,...
Many healthcare organizations today are hiring managed security service providers (MSSP) to manage specific security initiatives, or in some cases, outsourcing their entire security program. This approach is especially beneficial to those that have limited IT resources, lack internal security expertise, struggle to...
Health organizations face a wide range of new cyber security threats like crypto-jacking and IoT vulnerabilities while still facing the heavy load of compliance and basic security blocking and tackling. Security requires an end to end framework based approach to manage well against a constantly evolving threat...
Healthcare records remain one of the "holy grail" personally identifiable information (PII) data types for criminals. With patient data being more valuable to attackers than ever, alongside stricter HIPAA and HITECH compliance requirements and an ever-growing device inventory to manage, IT teams modernization...
As part of healthcare's digital transformation, payers and providers alike have rolled out patient portals and telemedicine platforms to increase access to care, improve patient participation and decrease healthcare administrative costs.
How secure are these portals? What types of authentication protocols are used to...
As part of healthcare's digital transformation, payers and providers alike have rolled out patient portals and telemedicine platforms to increase access to care, improve patient participation and decrease healthcare administrative costs.
How secure are these portals? What types of authentication protocols are used to...
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report assesses the legacy of WannaCry ransomware two years on. Also featured: the evolving role of healthcare CISOs; threat mitigation recommendations based on the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.
With the extensive network systems found in the health care industry, SSH keys are widely used to provide privileged administrative access and to secure machine-to-machine automation for important business functions. However, SSH keys are routinely untracked, unmanaged and unmonitored. This lack of visibility and...
What does it take to securely migrate nearly all your systems and data onto the cloud, phase out your own on-premises data center, and build shared cyber risk responsibility with third-parties? That's a journey under way at health insurer Wellmark. The health insurer's vice president and CISO Thien La will describe...
The healthcare sector has unique cybersecurity infrastructure threats as well as vulnerabilities. Dr. Abdul Rahman of Fidelis Cybersecurity describes it as a "terrain problem," and he recommends new strategies.
In 2018, the Identity Theft Resource Center counted 1,244 U.S. data breaches - involving the likes of Facebook, Marriott and Exactis - that exposed 447 million sensitive records, such as Social Security numbers, medical diagnoses and payment card data.
The digital revolution has given healthcare organizations new tools to increase team efficiency and improve their customer experience. But it's also opened up new vectors that cybercriminals can use to attack. As your attack surface expands to infrastructure that you don't own or control, becomes increasingly...
The organization that manages IT for Singapore's public healthcare sector says it has terminated, demoted or financially penalized several employees for their roles in the handling of a 2017 cyberattack on SingHealth, the nation's largest healthcare group. What do U.S. security experts think of these measures?
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