Supply Chain Management

Healthcare Sector Faces Critical Challenges With Supply Chain Risk Management

January 10, 2023 - Budget and capability constraints are contributing to persisting supply chain risk management challenges across the healthcare sector, a new survey conducted by Ponemon Institute on behalf of the Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group revealed. More than 400 IT and IT security practitioners took part in the...

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ECRI predicted that cyberattacks will be the primary hazard in the health technology space this year in its latest report. The nonprofit organization listed ten health technology hazards that it...

HSCA Releases Cybersecurity Guidelines for Medical Device Manufacturers

by Jill McKeon

The Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA) released guidance for medical device manufacturers and healthcare providers concerning cybersecurity and patient privacy practices. HSCA is a trade...

Trust in Legacy IT Vendors Drops as Supply Chain Security Issues Increase

by Jill McKeon

More than half of surveyed organizations reported losing trust in legacy IT vendors, such as Microsoft, in light of recent cyberattacks that exposed severe supply chain security gaps, according to a...

Using Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) For Medical Device Security

by Jill McKeon

A software bill of materials (SBOM) provides a list of all software components in a given device, enabling transparency by allowing device manufacturers, buyers, and operators to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and manage medical...

Microsoft Warns of Nobelium Attacks on IT Supply Chain

by Jill McKeon

Russian-linked hacking group Nobelium poses a significant threat to the global IT supply chain, Microsoft warned in a recent blog post. Threats to the IT supply chain could have an immense impact on...

Biden’s Executive Order to Boost Threat Sharing, Supply Chain Security

by Jessica Davis

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that takes aim at the country’s infrastructure cybersecurity weaknesses and is designed to bolster threat sharing between the government...

Can Healthcare Mitigate Risks to the COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain?

by Jessica Davis

As the world races to vaccinate its citizens, providers, hospitals, and research teams have rapidly deployed technologies to support the COVID-19 response. In turn, cybercriminals are preying on the thinly stretched supply chain with...

HSCC Shares Toolkit for Supply Chain Cybersecurity Risk Management

by Jessica Davis

The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) published the second release of its Supply Chain Cybersecurity Risk Management guide...

NIST Shares Cyber Risk Management, Mobile Guides; Impact Analysis Tool

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FBI Alerts to Ongoing Targeted Supply-Chain Cyberattacks

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NIST Shares Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management Guidance

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