Monday, April 22, 2019
For the first half of 2017, insiders caused the majority of healthcare breaches. But for the first time this year, hacking incidents were the greatest threat to the healthcare industry, according to the latest Protenus Breach Barometer released Wednesday.Healthcare organizations reported 36 breaches to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil
[ Read More ]Hackers have proven they can get through hospital networks into medical and Internet of Things devices, which is why it is crucial that patient safety be prioritized when outlining a security strategy to make sure that hackers cant physically affect patients.A CISO should talk in the risk management language of the business, not in the
[ Read More ]For the first time this year, outside hacks surpassed insider breaches both in frequency and in the total number of affected patient records in July. But one Massachusetts case that took 14 years to crack came from inside the hospital. …read more
[ Read More ]Healthcare organizations need to consider a number of legal issues when it comes to cybersecurity incidents involving medical devices, says attorney Thomas Barnard of the law firm Baker Donelson.”There are a couple layers that we need to be concerned about,” Barnard says in an interview with Information Security Media Group. “You have individual liabilities for
[ Read More ]Data breaches caused by hacking, so-called IT incidents and unauthorized access are on the rise, with 162% more incidents at healthcare organizations so far in 2017 as there were in all of 2016, according to data from HHS’ Office for Civil Rights.Security experts said that’s because hacking has gotten easier and organizations are now reporting
[ Read More ]Theyre difficult to memorize so employees skirt hospital IT rules when conjuring them up anyway, group says.The National Institute of Standards and Technology on Wednesday published new guidance on how to strengthen passwords. Why now? Research shows that the de facto standard practice of requiring users to include a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters,
[ Read More ]Take our poll and well report back on what other hospital IT shops are planning to do.In new draft guidance, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology urged healthcare and other IT shops to ease common password requirements.Instead of mandating that log-in credentials consist of numbers and symbols in addition to letters, NIST said phrases
[ Read More ]The Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are working closely with safety certification and consulting firm UL to improve the cybersecurity of internet of things devices as well as medical devices procured by the government. The effort could yield benefits to the private sector as well, two researchers explain
[ Read More ]Technology prepares provider organizations to protect patients and staff from growing threats.Hope for the best outcome, but prepare for the worst.The advice is simple, but clearly applicable to healthcare, particularly in the wake of ongoing cyberattacks.Each day, providers strive to care for patients who walk through their doors and to keep them safe and secure.
[ Read More ]WHEN BIOLOGISTS SYNTHESIZE DNA, they take pains not to create or spread a dangerous stretch of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin or, worse, an infectious disease. But one group of biohackers has demonstrated how DNA can carry a less expected threatone designed to infect not humans nor animals but computers.In
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