RSA's Art Coviello finds today's cybersecurity strategies to be lacking. Global organizations must rely more on big data and public-private partnerships to defend themselves from advanced threats.
In a question and answer session, an FDA official confirms the agency is evaluating how it reviews medical device vulnerabilities and discusses ways that healthcare organizations, vendors and consumers can address security threats.
How can smaller healthcare organizations determine whether a vendor is a business associate or subcontractor directly liable for compliance under the new HIPAA Omnibus Rule? Regulatory expert Marjorie Satinsky explains.
An organization's security is only as strong as that of its partners, says Mandiant Director Charles Carmakal, who offers insight on common attack trends emerging from recent data breach investigations.
Despite growing awareness of cyberthreats, Americans are not overly concerned about their own cybersecurity, Unisys' Steve Vinsik says in his analysis of his company's latest security index.
News about data breaches is motivating more organizations to take steps to improve their security profiles, says Bill Spooner, CIO of Sharp Healthcare, who analyzes the results of the Healthcare Information Security Today survey.
A year after LinkedIn confirmed its network had been breached, reportedly exposing 6.5 million hashed passwords, the social media company is offering users the option of adopting two-factor authentication.
New York state residents soon will be able to use a health information exchange's portal to securely access all their records, rather than having to gain access from providers one-by-one, explains HIE leader David Whitlinger.
What can U.S. and European organizations learn from Asia-Pac about advanced mobile tech and increasing cyberthreats? That's a question I hope to answer while in Singapore for RSA Conference Asia Pacific 2013.
Malware affecting medical devices is one of the most serious emerging threats in healthcare, says security researcher Kevin Fu. Learn about his mitigation recommendations.
After a tornado destroyed an Oklahoma hospital, clinicians were still able to access patients' data. Find out the roles electronic health records and health information exchange played.
When President Obama comes face to face with China's President Xi Jinping, don't expect the American commander in chief to present an ultimatum over Chinese cybersecurity assaults on critical U.S. IT systems.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says policyholders' health, financial and personally identifiable information stored by insurers could be the next big target of hackers, so the state is seeking cyber-protection information from top insurers it regulates.
As interest in personalized medicine continues to grow, healthcare providers and researchers will need to be mindful of genomic data privacy and security challenges, says federal adviser Dixie Baker.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including a hacker attack on a web server of the Health Information Trust Alliance, a security collaborative, that exposed a test database.
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