Emerging threat actors have redefined the attack surface—and are targeting your helpdesk. Through social engineering, impersonation, and MFA fatigue tactics, they’re bypassing perimeter defenses and are using support channels as the first step toward…
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Why Is Getting MFA Right a Challenge in Healthcare?
If we break down a hospital into four functional areas — clinical, operational, administrative and technological — those last three areas are typical to the lifecycle…
Croydon Sexual Health and HIV clinic at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust (CSH) has gone live with Inform Health’s electronic patient record (EPR) and personal health record (PHR) systems.
CSH announced plans in February 2025…
Cisco Duo Addresses the Needs of Healthcare Organizations
Healthcare IT leaders focused on mitigating the increasing scrutiny of data privacy regulations, such as HIPAA or the California Consumer Privacy Act, will find a new best…
Making Access Seamless — and Shutting It Down When Necessary
The clear benefit of SSO is removing the administrative burden of logging in to individual applications. This typically manifests in simple passwords that are easy…
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reduced the fine imposed on Advanced to £3.07 million for security failings that put the personal information of almost 80,000 people at risk.
The fine, which is the first…
To enhance security, Google is making multi-factor authentication mandatory on all Cloud accounts by the end of 2025. The company said Monday that it would also send advanced notifications to enterprises and help plan…
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Introduction
The healthcare industry is continuously innovating to improve clinician efficiency and security, with authentication processes at the forefront of this evolution. Traditional multifactor authentication (MFA) systems, while secure, often become a burden for clinicians…
What Is Privileged Access Management (PAM)?
PAM can be thought of as a subset of IAM that is focused on powerful or sensitive access and normally used in scenarios whereby an individual (or machine) needs…
Mike Harris, Sr. Manager of Business Development for ELATEC Inc.
In February 2024, the Change Healthcare ransomware attack shut down healthcare billing and authorization systems for providers across the nation, substantially impacting business systems, finances…
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