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Growing Body of Data Shows High Healthcare Breach Risk
- It’s no secret that the healthcare industry has a cybersecurity crisis. Week after week, new headlines appear detailing new hacks, millions of dollars in ransoms, and PHI that’s been taken from secure servers and is now floating around the dark web. According to Kaiser Health News, over 20 million patients have had their data exposed in...
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How Identity Management IGA Secures Protected Health Information
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While no healthcare organization can eliminate the possibility of facing a data breach, implementing HIPAA technical safeguards can go a long way toward mitigating cyber risk. Under the HIPAA Security...Sponsored by SecureLink