Can Healthcare Mitigate Risks to the COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain?
HealthITSecurity As the world races to vaccinate its citizens, providers, hospitals, and research teams have rapidly deployed technologies to support the COVID-19 response. In turn, cybercriminals are preying on the thinly stretched supply chain with swaths of cyberattacks and fraud schemes to steal valuable data and make a massive profit. The US and other countries have already seen the damage these...
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Biggest Healthcare Security Threats, Ransomware Trends into 2021
In 2020, the resiliency of the healthcare industry was tested in terms of its response to two national crises: a global pandemic and hackers taking advantage of an oft-weakened workforce. Ransomware was yet again the biggest cybersecurity...
Rapid Threat Evolution Spurs Crucial Healthcare Cybersecurity Needs
It’s no secret healthcare has remained highly targeted by cybercriminals given its troves of valuable data and the high likelihood of paying ransom demands. As COVID-19 surged, hackers rapidly evolved their threats and tactics to...
Cyber Resilient Vendor Relationships for Healthcare’s Threat Landscape
The threats targeting healthcare continue to increase in both their frequency and sophistication. And if the latest third-party vendor security incident is any indication, the need for developing a cyber resilient vendor management process...
How Zero Trust in Healthcare Can Keep Pace with the Threat Landscape
Healthcare has and will likely always be a prime target for cyberattacks, given its valuable data and the need for constant data access to ensure continuity of care. While awareness around these issues has drastically improved, the need for...
Insights into HHS COVID-19 HIPAA Waivers and Lasting Implications
The nationwide public health emergency brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak has led to several Good Faith HIPAA waivers from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office for Civil Rights. The waivers aim to fuel data sharing...
Can Multi-Factor Authentication Help Healthcare’s Security Posture?
Microsoft has found multi-factor authentication (MFA) blocks 99.9 percent of automated cyberattacks on Microsoft platforms, websites, and other online services. As hackers continue to target user credentials and email compromise, providers...
Evaluating Cyber Readiness, Vulnerabilities with Pen Testing
Healthcare suffers with a unique endpoint challenge: a host of vendors, legacy systems, and an ever-increasing list of connected devices. But even with what it may deem a secure network, the threat landscape also continuously adds new...
Filling Healthcare Security Staffing Gaps with Virtual CISOs, Students
In 2017, a damning report from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force revealed the troubled state of healthcare security staffing: three out of four organizations were operating without a...
What Is Cyber Insurance for Healthcare Organizations?
The healthcare sector has been a prime target for hackers over the last few years. Attacks have increased in sophistication, shifting at times from the obvious ransomware attacks to subtle, credential-stealing cyberattacks that hide in the...
Complying with the HIPAA Privacy Rule During Emergency Situations
Emergency situations and natural disasters, such as hurricanes, pandemics, or mass casualties, can quickly overwhelm healthcare systems. The last thing on people’s minds in those situations is complying with the HIPAA Privacy Rule....
Perils of Healthcare Phishing and What You Can Do About It
The old stereotype used to be that doctors didn’t work on Wednesday because they were out playing golf or fishing. Today, healthcare phishing is no joke to doctors, many of whom work on Wednesdays and weekends, or for other healthcare...
Defending Against Healthcare Ransomware Attacks
Healthcare ransomware attacks have become a security nightmare for many organizations over the last couple of years. Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents or limits users from accessing their systems, either by locking the...
Data Security Considerations in Healthcare Interoperability
While more healthcare organizations are utilizing electronic health records (EHRs) and adding to the increase in healthcare interoperability finding a health IT option that provides better patient care and keeps PHI secure is not always...
HIPAA Data Breaches: What Covered Entities Must Know
As more healthcare organizations implement new technologies, connect to health information exchanges, and adopt electronic health record technology, they are potentially exposing themselves to more online threats and potential HIPAA data...
The Role of Risk Assessments in Healthcare
A risk assessment helps covered entities ensure they are compliant with the HIPAA requirements in terms of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards. It also assists in showing potential areas where an organization might be putting...
How Ransomware Affects Hospital Data Security
Ransomware is a type of malware that typically prevents organizations from accessing certain parts of its system. For example, an entity and its users could be locked out from critical systems, such as EHRs, and may be unable to get in...
Increased EHR Adoption Raises Need for Robust Security
EHR security is one small piece to the larger data security puzzle that healthcare organizations, especially those of a larger size, are becoming increasingly aware of and looking to address. Under HIPAA, covered entities have the...
Why diversifying clearinghouse, banking partners is crucial
RevCycleIntelligence Clearinghouses and banks are crucial in supporting hospitals’ financial health, enabling providers to focus on delivering high-quality patient care. However, a recent cyberattack that shut down one of the largest clearinghouses in...
Improving mammography utilization to cut breast cancer mortality
LifeSciencesIntelligence A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights the association between mammography utilization and various social determinants of health (SDOH) and health-related social needs among women in the United...
