NIST Shares Workforce Development, Cybersecurity Partnership Insights
NIST released a report outlining the results from a five-year pilot program for regional alliances and stakeholder partnerships, which also provides organizations with a roadmap for building their own...37% Health Orgs Shirk Mobile Security for Efficiency, Increasing Risk
Verizon recently released its third annual Mobile Security Index, which revealed 37 percent of healthcare organizations admit to sacrificing mobile security to “get the job done” and have...Accounting Firm Ransomware Hack Affects Community Care Patient Data
New York-based accounting firm BST was recently infected with Maze malware, which potentially compromised patient data from Community Care Physicians. According to the notification, BST fell victim to...Over 41.4M Patient Records Breached in 2019, as Hacking Jumped 49%
More than 41.4 million patient records were breached by 572 healthcare data breaches in 2019, as hacking surged. And it’s likely those estimates are vastly underestimated given two significant...Insider Breach Remediation Costs Health, Pharma $10.81M Annually
Health and pharma organizations that experience security incidents caused by careless or malicious insiders spend an average of $10.81 million each year to remediate the threat, according to a recent...Ransomware, Phishing Attacks Compromised Half US Orgs in 2019
More than half of US organizations faced a successful phishing and or ransomware attack in 2019, as hackers leveraged a high frequency of social engineering attempts through business email compromise,...Evasive Domain-Impersonation Phishing Attacks Increase by 400%
Barracuda researchers detected a 400 percent increase in domain-impersonation attacks aimed at conversation hijacking since July. While the method is used far less frequently than other phishing attack...Health Plans Struggle with HIPAA Compliance, Unprepared for Audit
Many health plan group sponsors are struggling to remain or are not fully compliant with HIPAA rules. Further, those same healthcare organizations are not prepared for a HIPAA audit, according to new...Cyber Threats Behind the Biggest Healthcare Data Breaches of 2019
Healthcare faced some of the biggest data breaches of recent history in 2019, as hackers shifted tactics to increase the success rate of financially motivated attacks. At the start of last year, trojan...Sponsored by SailPoint
