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Cybersecurity Resilience Top Priority for 96% of Surveyed Executives

December 14, 2022 - Organization executives are doubling down on investments toward cybersecurity reliance as an uptick in data security breaches jeopardizes business operations and overwhelms industries, including the healthcare sector, according to a recent Cisco report. The “Security Outcomes Report, Volume 3: Achieving Security Resilience” revealed...


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3 Ways to Avoid Repeat Healthcare Ransomware Attacks

by Jill McKeon

Healthcare ransomware attacks can result in EHR downtime, data encryption, ambulance diversions, and other disruptions. With patient safety on the line, it is imperative that healthcare organizations work quickly to get systems up and...

OCR Highlights HIPAA Security Rule Incident Response Procedures

by Jill McKeon

The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) utilized its October newsletter to remind covered entities of their incident response obligations under the HIPAA Security Rule. The newsletter provided a...

Responding To a Healthcare Ransomware Attack: A Step-By-Step Guide

by Jill McKeon

Healthcare ransomware attacks can result in data exfiltration, financial and reputational losses, and workflow disruptions. Even the most sophisticated security programs are not immune to ransomware. The Federal Bureau of...

Lengthy Healthcare Cyberattack Recovery Disrupts MD Department of Health

by Jill McKeon

The road to healthcare cyberattack recovery is long for the Maryland Department of Health (MDH) as it enters month three of restoring business operations. Meanwhile, Taylor Regional Hospital (TRH) in...

Sky Lakes Medical: A First-Hand Look at Fall Ransomware Attack, Recovery

by Jessica Davis

The FBI began investigating a wave of targeted ransomware attacks against at least a dozen US hospitals, health systems, and healthcare providers in October 2020. Sky Lakes Medical Center in Oregon was...

What Happens After a Ransomware Attack in the Health IT Environment?

by Jessica Davis

When the FBi warned of the active ransomware attack wave against providers in the Fall of 2020, it heightened reporting and highlighted the need for proactive security measures to protect the...

Cyberattack Drives 2 UF Health Hospitals to EHR Downtime

by Jessica Davis

A cyberattack on the University of Florida Health The Villages Regional Hospital and Leesburg Hospital has driven clinicians to EHR downtime procedures as its leadership investigates the ongoing...

Scripps Reports Data Theft, EHR Back Online, but Global Outages Persist

by Jessica Davis

Scripps Health has restored the majority of its network and brought its Epic EHR back online, four weeks after falling victim to a ransomware attack, according to a May 27 status update.  The...

Cyberattack Updates: Alaska Health Dept, Scripps’ Recovery, Ireland HSE

by Jessica Davis

In the last week, an FBI alert and a Check Point repott reiterated what many in the healthcare sector have known for some time: Ransomware threat actors are consistently targeting and successfully...

Healthcare Ransomware Outages: Scripps, Ireland HSE, and NZ Hospitals

by Jessica Davis

Healthcare remains a key target for ransomware hacking groups, as seen in recent research data and multiple hospital system outages. Scripps Health is continuing recovery efforts two weeks after an...

UHS Ransomware Attack Cost $67M in Lost Revenue, Recovery Efforts

by Jessica Davis

The ransomware attack that resulted in EHR outages at all 400 Universal Healthcare Services’ care sites for about three weeks last year, resulted in about $67 million in lost operating...

Army National Guard Deployed to UVM to Assist Ransomware Recovery

by Jessica Davis

Vermont Governor Phil Scott announced the deployment of the Army National Guard’s Combined Cyber Response Team to the University of Vermont Health...

IBM: Health Sector Leads in Annual Data Breach Costs, Topping $7.13M

by Jessica Davis

Data breaches are the most expensive in healthcare when compared to all global industries with costs topping $7.13 million annually, compared to $3.86 million across all sectors,...

HHS Issues Limited Waiver of HIPAA Sanctions Due to Coronavirus

by Jessica Davis

Following President Donald Trump’s declaration of a nationwide emergency over the Coronavirus, or COVID-19, the Department of Health and Human Service Secretary Alex Azar issued a limited waiver...

45% Connected Medical Devices Vulnerable to BlueKeep Exploit

by Jessica Davis

Microsoft issued a rare legacy patch for vulnerability known as BlueKeep, which impacts about 1 million devices. According to a new report from CyberMDX, about 45 percent of connected medical devices...

Enloe Medical Remains in EHR Downtime 2 Weeks After Cyberattack

by Jessica Davis

Enloe Medical Center in Chico, California is still attempting to recover from a ransomware attack that struck on January 2. More than two weeks after the initial attack, the provider continues to care...