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CISA Warns Critical Infrastructure of APT Actors Targeting Outlook Online

July 17, 2023 - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) urged critical infrastructure entities to enhance monitoring of Microsoft Exchange Online environments following reports of malicious cyber activity. According to CISA’s alert, a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agency reported...


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Healthcare Continues to Spearhead Public Cloud Adoption

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Public cloud adoption continues to increase in healthcare, with 73 percent of surveyed organizations using multiple public cloud vendors, Forrester’s State of Cloud in Healthcare 2023 report...

Attackers Increasingly Targeting Cloud Apps to Deliver Malware in Healthcare

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Small Healthcare Orgs Point to Cybersecurity As Barrier to Cloud Adoption

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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

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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

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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...

2.9M Victims, 42 Healthcare Data Breaches Reported to HHS in March

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UPDATE 4/14/2022: This article has been updated to reflect additional entries in OCR's data breach portal.  The number of healthcare data breaches reported to HHS in March dipped for the...

Top Challenges to Multi-Cloud Adoption in Healthcare

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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,...

Security Defines Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Success, IT Leaders Say

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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,...

Cloud Adoption Shifts to Hybrid, Multicloud IT Architecture

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C-suite executives are shifting away from using a single public or private cloud in favor of a hybrid, multicloud IT architecture, according to new research from IBM. The pandemic accelerated digital...

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

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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...

Public Cloud Adoption Rises, But Health Security Concerns Remain

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Organizations that host all their applications in the public cloud are less likely to experience a data breach or ransomware attack, according to a new report conducted by market research firm Vanson...

CSA Offers Guidance on Preventing Ransomware in the Healthcare Cloud

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The Cloud Security Alliance’s (CSA) Health Information Management Working Group recently released guidance warning healthcare delivery organizations about the growing threat of ransomware in the...

DoD: Staff Need Healthcare Privacy, Cloud Security Certifications

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The US Department of Defense (DoD) will now require certain incoming cybersecurity staff to complete two additional (ISC)² certifications focused on healthcare privacy and cloud security. The...