Building defenses around the most common ransomware attempts could help prevent attacks. Standing up these defenses can drastically limit potential credential exposures, say healthcare security specialists – but the work involved could represent a…
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In this interview, we discuss the current state of cybersecurity in health care with a specific focus on impersonation attacks, featuring Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint and Erik Decker, Vice President &…
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Healthcare organizations work with third parties for claims processing, imaging, contractors and more. Each of these third parties represents a potential cybersecurity vulnerability.
Third-party risk management is crucial in today’s interconnected healthcare landscape, especially amid…
LAS VEGAS – “Real-world data breaches have highlighted our gaps currently in security, where we lack readiness, and some of our ongoing homework abilities,” said Dr. Hannah K. Galvin, the Cambridge Health Alliance’s chief…
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This year’s HIMSS24 is turning the spotlight to an issue of increasing importance – cybersecurity – with the daylong Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Monday, March 11, hosted by Erik Decker, chief information security officer…
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BOSTON – At the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Thursday, Erik Decker, chief information security officer at Intermountain Health, led a discussion with cybersecurity leaders from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…
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BOSTON – Cybersecurity is not just about technology and compliance frameworks, of course. At health systems large and small, it’s a human-scale challenge – with human factors still, always, the weakest link in a…
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Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives…
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There are new tools for protecting clinic and hospital security that every healthcare organization should know about. In this video, two leaders, Erik Decker, Vice President – Chief Information Security Officer at Intermountain Health…
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There are new cybersecurity tools for protecting patient safety that every healthcare organization should know about. In this video, two leaders in the field discuss two recent initiatives: The Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study, co-led…
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