Calli Dretke, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Marketing Officer at CHIME, asks a question of Lisa Gallagher, National Cybersecurity Advisor at CHIME, on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, during the ViVE conference in…
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The Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum at this year’s HIMSS25 in Las Vegas will bring together industry leaders to address rising cyber threats and the need for stronger protections in healthcare.Experts will share real-world insights from…
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Critical Security Vulnerabilities Discovered
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has raised serious concerns about cybersecurity vulnerabilities affecting patient monitors manufactured by Chinese company Contec Medical Systems. These security flaws potentially enable cybercriminals to bypass…
What You Should Know:
– Fortified Health Security, a managed security services provider (MSSP) specializing in healthcare cybersecurity released its 2025 Horizon Report.
– The semiannual publication provides valuable insights into the latest cybersecurity trends, threats,…
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Why Healthcare Systems Are Targeted
Greg Young, vice president of cybersecurity at Trend Micro, says an organization’s biggest vulnerability is simply being in the healthcare industry.
“The amount of key data within these organizations is a…
Cybercriminals remain a major threat in the healthcare sector — with the vast majority of healthcare organizations reporting spotting a cyberattack and suffering financial consequences as a result in the past 12 months, according…
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Technical Debt Limits Visibility into Healthcare’s Vulnerabilities
One issue is that legacy systems, and the IT teams that manage them, tend to be siloed. That makes incident response difficult. With limited visibility across the enterprise,…
Vendor ManagementThird-party vendor management should also be part of a healthcare organization’s overall cybersecurity strategy, Rappl adds. Leveraging services from vendors is necessary for growth, she notes, but those partnerships carry their own risks.
“You’re…
Essential Healthcare Industry Transformations Revealed 2024
Major Cybersecurity Challenges
The healthcare sector faced unprecedented cybersecurity challenges in 2024, with UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare experiencing a devastating ransomware attack. This incident impacted approximately 100 million individuals’ personal…
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Office for Civil Rights have announced they will be soliciting comments on a proposal to modify the Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected…
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