Rising Cybersecurity Threats in Healthcare
Healthcare organizations face mounting cybersecurity challenges daily. The sector has become a prime target for cyberattacks, with hospital systems reporting record numbers of data breaches and ransomware incidents in recent…
The New Reality of Ransomware: Why Your Epic Environment Needs an Isolated Recovery PlanBy Bill Smith
Bill Smith is director of Epic practice at Cordea Consulting.
In early 2024, one of the nation’s largest healthcare payment…
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WHY IT MATTERSRecognizing that protecting user data has been increasingly challenged by pervasive cyberattacks, the U.S. Department of Commerce said it intends to align its two foundational privacy and cybersecurity frameworks.
The NIST Privacy Framework 1.1…
Data Security Council of India and HIMSS will undertake a national-level analysis of healthcare cybersecurity in India. Last week, the organisations signed a memorandum of understanding to write a cybersecurity report and market analysis of…
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Vendors at this week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco are rolling out agentic artificial intelligence infusions embedded in cybersecurity platforms, new AI firewalls, cloud protection tools and other products that aim to stay ahead…
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Cyberattacks targeting the healthcare industry are happening more frequently, and they’re becoming more sophisticated and damaging. There are many reasons for this, of course. But leading the pack are attacker (and attack) sophistication and…
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Small and rural hospitals are seeking strategies to find their way through the dangerous surge of healthcare cyberattacks. It’s a challenge for many of them.For instance, most of the 550 or so rural hospitals working with…
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About 90% of healthcare organizations are insecurely connected to the internet and running systems vulnerable to exploitation by ransomware gangs, according to research released this week by cybersecurity firm Clarorty.
The report examined data from…
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Perimeter Security Under Siege
Compromised perimeter security devices, particularly VPNs, accounted for 58% of all ransomware attack initial access vectors in 2024, according to cyber security insurance provider Coalition’s latest annual threat report. This alarming…
Jacob Johnson, CISO of ArmorPoint
Few industries rely more heavily on sensitive personal information than the healthcare sector, and therefore few collect, store and share as much data. The Department of Health and Human Services…
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