In this episode of "Cybersecurity Unplugged," Dan Bowden, CISO at Sentara Health, discusses telemedicine, IoMT, and explains why we’re lagging so far behind in healthcare security. "It’s because of how the data is managed, data standards, data integrity."
Healthcare organizations cannot adequately protect the safety and privacy of their patients and staff unless they have efficient, accurate systems to manage third-party identity risk.
By managing third-party risk at the identity level, healthcare organizations can make better-informed access decisions. Adopting a...
A criminal hack attack has disrupted healthcare in Canada's easternmost province and resulted in the theft of patient information and personal details for healthcare employees. The province of Newfoundland and Labrador disclosed the apparent ransomware attack on Oct. 30, and has yet to restore all systems.
Healthcare providers are not technology companies – however, increasingly everything they do is underpinned by technology, and never more so than in today’s digital world. COVID-19 has underlined the need for a fully functional healthcare and pharmaceutical ecosystem. It has also demonstrated the fragility of the...
Federal regulators are reminding healthcare organizations about the critical importance of addressing security risks involving legacy systems and devices - including specialty software and gear - that are often difficult for entities to replace. What steps should entities take?
MITRE, the not-for-profit organization that works across governmental and federal agencies, as well as various industrial verticals and academia, has set up The Cyber Infrastructure Protection Innovation Center and The Clinical Insights Innovation Cell to protect healthcare.
Critical infrastructure, technology vendors, healthcare providers – they all have been high-profile ransomware victims in 2021, and you have every reason to believe your manufacturing organization could be next. What is at stake, and how specifically can an entity in your sector reduce risk and prepare a recovery...
In 2020, reports indicated that cyberattacks on the healthcare industry more than doubled from 2019, with
ransomware accounting for 28 percent of all attacks. Unlike previous attacks focused
primarily on providers, the COVID-19 pandemic
exposed vulnerabilities in the entire healthcare sector.
Attackers, especially...
A federal law signed earlier this year amending the HITECH Act could help incentivize many healthcare sector entities to bolster their cybersecurity programs, says federal adviser Erik Decker, CISO of Intermountain Health, who suggest other incentives, as well.
The global pandemic has transformed the way medical devices are utilized and data is shared with patients and medical practitioners. The proliferation of medical devices and data has created a playground for threat actors intent on wreaking havoc by stealing patient information, interrupting medical practices, or...
Today, healthcare organizations are adopting and leveraging more public cloud technologies to keep up with the demands of delivering modern healthcare and supporting the evolving connected health ecosystem. How should healthcare organizations incorporate data security practices to public cloud and SaaS applications...
The digital transformation occurring in healthcare has brought with it a wave of new information security and privacy considerations for hospitals and health systems and the technology companies that serve the industry. With third-party breaches at an all-time high, healthcare providers continue to increase their...
An Australian software engineer warns that he was able to create a fake digital COVID-19 vaccine certificate via the government's Express Medicare Plus app, and that the agency in charge has so far failed to acknowledge his bug report. He recommends Australia instead copy the EU's QR code system.
DuPage Medical Group in suburban Chicago has been smacked with a lawsuit following its recent "network outage" health data breach, which was reported to regulators as potentially affecting the protected health information of more than 655,000 individuals.. What are plaintiffs alleging?
Federal authorities have issued an updated advisory about security vulnerabilities in certain patient monitoring devices manufactured by Philips, which, if exploited, could result in unauthorized access to patient data and interruptions in monitoring.
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