Cloud Security

Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture For Medical Device Security

May 23, 2023 - A zero trust architecture can help organizations across all sectors secure their networks and keep cyber threats at bay. Zero trust is not a standalone technology or tactic, but an array of cyber defenses that operate under the principle that anything inside or outside network perimeters should not be automatically trusted. In the case of...


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Attackers Increasingly Targeting Cloud Apps to Deliver Malware in Healthcare

by Jill McKeon

Threat actors are increasingly abusing cloud apps to deliver malware in healthcare settings, Netskope revealed in its latest Threat Labs Report. Cloud-delivered malware increased from 38 percent to 42...

Cyberattacks Drive Multi-Cloud Security Solution Market Growth

by Jill McKeon

Cloud adoption continues to grow rapidly across numerous sectors as organizations further prioritize digital transformation, scalability, and security. Healthcare organizations in particular are...

Security Is Key to Maximizing Cloud Adoption Success in Healthcare

by Jill McKeon

Cloud adoption in healthcare has continued to increase in recent years, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report from Wipro Limited suggested. The pandemic opened organizations up to expanded...

Cloud Security Risk Management Among ECRI’s Top Health Tech Hazards This Year

by Jill McKeon

Cloud security concerns settled into the number five spot on ECRI’s list of “Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2023,” a report that the organization has released annually for the...

Cybersecurity Risks Spike Within Cloud-Based Apps, Report Shows

by Jill McKeon

Cloud adoption has been on the rise in the healthcare sector for years for good reason as more organizations lean into digital transformation. According to Vantage Market Research, the healthcare...

KLAS: Security is a Top Factor in Public Cloud Adoption For HIT Vendors

by Jill McKeon

Security is a top priority for HIT vendors when it comes to public cloud adoption, KLAS found. For its 2022 report, KLAS surveyed senior IT leaders from 44 HIT software vendors, all of which are...

Many Cloud Attacks End in Financial Loss for Healthcare Sector

by Sarai Rodriguez

Numerous cloud attacks are successfully exploiting the healthcare sector for financial gain, according to a newly released 2022 Cloud Security Report by cybersecurity vendor Netwrix. Cloud...

How Healthcare Cyberattacks Can Impact Patient Safety, Care Delivery

by Jill McKeon

Along with documented financial losses and reputational harm, healthcare cyberattacks may endanger patient safety and adversely impact care delivery. With the goal of understanding how various...

Small Healthcare Orgs Point to Cybersecurity As Barrier to Cloud Adoption

by Jill McKeon

Healthcare organizations are right to prioritize cybersecurity considering today’s threats, but increasing complexity in cybersecurity may be making it harder to advance cloud adoption and...

HC3 Calls Attention to Cloud Security Concerns, Mitigation Tactics

by Jill McKeon

The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) released an analyst note detailing cloud security risks. The note addressed issues with shadow IT, misconfiguration, cloud hijacking, and...

Cybersecurity Professionals Identify Top Cloud Computing Security Risks

by Jill McKeon

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) released this year’s “Top Threats to Cloud Computing” report, outlining the most prevalent security concerns that trouble cybersecurity experts...

CSA Provides Best Practices For Healthcare Supply Chain Cybersecurity

by Jill McKeon

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) released guidance to help organizations effectively address healthcare supply chain cybersecurity. From software components to medical...

Top Challenges to Multi-Cloud Adoption in Healthcare

by Jill McKeon

Multi-cloud adoption is steadily growing in healthcare, but challenges remain as organizations grapple with tough IT deployment decisions, Nutanix found in its Enterprise Cloud Index survey and report,...

Driving Digital Transformation in Healthcare With Industry Clouds

by Jill McKeon

Public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud architectures are gaining traction in healthcare, but industry clouds may be the next big thing in cloud computing. As the name suggests, industry clouds offer sector-specific cloud solutions to...

CSA Guidance Addresses Security, Privacy Risks of AI in Healthcare

by Jill McKeon

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) released guidance outlining the benefits and risks associated with AI in healthcare, highlighting the need to address the security and privacy risks that come along...

Security Defines Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Success, IT Leaders Say

by Jill McKeon

Almost half of surveyed IT leaders reported struggles with balancing application performance and security as the top performance challenge when it comes to implementing multi-cloud infrastructure,...

73% of Ransomware Detections in Q2 2021 Credited to REvil/Sodinokibi

by Jill McKeon

McAfee’s quarterly cyber threat report revealed troubling statistics about the current state of ransomware, showing that 73 percent of ransomware detections in Q2 2021 were credited to the...