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To help ease the transition to the cloud, VMware announced GE Healthcare will leverage VMware SD-WAN, now part of VMware SASE, to seamlessly deliver cloud-based services to GE Healthcare customers. "VMware SD-WAN provides this network overlay to prioritize and move high-fidelity, latency-sensitive data to the cloud and between edge locations. Leveraging VMware SD-WAN enables GE Healthcare to offer rapid, more securely deployed, and easily accessed virtual care solutions."

Organizations in the healthcare sector - and especially those engaged in delivering healthcare services - have always been juicy targets for cyber attackers. While in the past they were mostly after patients' personal, health and financial data these organizations store to be able to provide services, the advent of ransomware has dramatically changed the threat landscape they must face.

Riskonnect announces the latest release of its Patient Safety & Risk Management solution. The 2021.2 version of the platform includes two new features to help healthcare customers keep up with evolving patient safety standards and innovations, including support for safety huddles and the Communication and Optimal Resolution process.

Second quarter blocked DDoS attack volumes were up more than 40% compared to the same period in 2020, a Radware report reveals. The report provides an overview of DDoS attack trends by industry, as well as across applications and attack types.

The last year was challenging for every business sector, and none more than healthcare which was under enormous pressure to provide care while changing the way many services are delivered. According to data from a Redgate Software report, the importance of IT in enabling and facilitating that change has been key to success for the healthcare sector, with DevOps adoption, cloud use and cross-platform database development all increasing markedly.

In a new report, CynergisTek reviewed just under 100 assessments of healthcare providers across the continuum, including hospitals, physician practices, Accountable Care Organizations, and Business Associates. These assessments measure organizations' security posture against the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Cybersecurity Framework, a standardized framework first published in 2014 intended to help protect American critical infrastructure.

Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service for healthcare and life sciences organizations to ingest, store, query, and analyze their health data at scale. Using Amazon HealthLake, organizations can easily move their FHIR-formatted health data from on-premises systems to a secure data lake in the cloud.

When it comes to technologies fueled by data, such as artificial intelligence, it's even harder to strike the balance between equitable access and inherent risk. They've figured out how to do this without sharing their valuable data.

The healthcare industry experienced devastating effects from DNS attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic, more so than other industries, a report from EfficientIP and IDC shows. The report shows that healthcare is more vulnerable than other industries to a variety of consequences from attacks: healthcare is the most likely industry to suffer application downtime, with 53% of healthcare companies in the survey reporting that.

Avanan announced the release of a report which analyzes today's threat landscape, phishing vectors, and industry-based attacks, exposing healthcare and manufacturing as two of the top targets for cyberattacks in the first half of the year. IT saw over 9,000 phishing emails in a one month span, out of an average of 376,914 total emails; healthcare saw over 6,000 phishing emails out of an average of 451,792 total emails; and manufacturing saw just under 6,000 phishing emails out of an average of 331,184 total emails.