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Under this partnership, Medigate's IoT security platform will integrate with Rapid7 InsightVM and Nexpose vulnerability management systems, allowing HDOs, clinics and other HIPAA-covered entities a secure way to manage connected assets. "Todd Felker, director of information security at Torrance Memorial Medical Center commented,"The integration between Rapid7 and Medigate is crucial and helps on both fronts.
Data breaches and network outages are a real and growing cost for the industry: 43% of respondents estimated the costs of data breaches would exceed $2 million and 34% said the same for network outages. The healthcare industry is a target: 52% of respondents suffered a data breach in the past year.
Healthcare IoT cybersecurity and intelligence provider Cylera today announced that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. To date, the company has secured $17 million in funding.
Patient data protection provider Tausight this week announced that it has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The new funding, Tausight says, will help expand the go-to-market team and invest in a healthcare-specific solution designed to identify security flaws in clinical workflows.
As they do this, Imperva Research Labs has monitored a staggering 372% increase in healthcare bot traffic globally since September 2020. In February 2021, bot traffic soared 48.8%, the largest increase over the past year, and reaching an unprecedented level over the 12-month average.
A vulnerability in an SDK that allows users to make video calls in apps like eHarmony, Plenty of Fish, MeetMe and Skout allows threat actors to spy on private calls without the user knowing. Healthcare apps such as Talkspace, Practo and Dr. First's Backline, among various others, also use the SDK for their call technology.
In 2020, there were 599 healthcare breaches that collectively affected over 26 million individuals. Bitglass' report takes an in-depth look at the breaches that healthcare organizations faced, comparing them to previous years and revealing key trends and cybersecurity challenges facing the industry.
SoftServe has achieved AWS Healthcare Competency status. SoftServe joins a select group of AWS Partner Network members to have achieved the AWS Healthcare Competency status.
Analyzing data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, threat protection company Bitglass found that the count of healthcare breaches reported in 2020 increased to 599, a jump of more than 50% compared to the previous year. Most of the breaches were caused by hacking and IT incidents, which exposed data from 24.1 million individuals, making them vulnerable to identity theft and phishing attacks.
Healthcare data breaches went up 36% in the second half of 2020, according to a new analysis from CI Security. In the second half of the year, more than 21.3 million records were breached, an increase of 177% from nearly 7.7 million records breached in the first half of 2020.