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To ensure the highest levels of endpoint security across more than 8,000 devices and to help achieve HIPAA compliance in the face of rising data breaches across the healthcare industry, Apria Healthcare leverages Absolute, the leader in endpoint resilience, for comprehensive endpoint visibility and control. "Persistence [located] in the BIOS is the number one item that I think really sets Absolute apart from other companies touting that they can do asset tracking better," said Janet Hunt, Senior Director, IT User Support at Apria Healthcare.
SecureLink, the leader in vendor privileged access management, released SecureLink for Healthcare to provide hospitals and healthcare organizations a centralized solution for managing privileged access for third-party vendors. It is customized to meet the needs of organizations operating under HIPAA and HITECH regulations and gives network administrators the ability to limit access to specific systems and applications, while providing a full video audit and keystroke logging of sessions.
As tensions between the U.S. and Iran continue to rise, healthcare organizations need to exercise extra vigilance in shoring up their security to defend against potential Iranian cyberattacks on critical infrastructure sectors, says Errol Weiss, chief security officer of the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center. Destructive "Wiper" attacks were carried out by Iran against Saudi Aramco computers in 2012 and the Las Vegas Sands casino in 2014, as well as a long series of distributed denial-of-service attacks on U.S. banks in 2012 and 2013.
Medigate, a dedicated medical device security and asset management solution, announced it’s joining forces with Cerner Corporation, a global health care technology company, to make it easier for...
A British man suspected to be a member of 'The Dark Overlord,' an infamous international hacking group, has finally been extradited to the United States after being held for over two years in the...
A new, highly targeted piece of ransomware has hit a handful of tech and healthcare companies in Europe and the United States, BlackBerry Cylance reports. read more
ClearDATA, the leader in healthcare public cloud security, compliance and privacy, announced a new Software as a Service (SaaS) compliance management solution, ClearDATA Comply, that helps...
38 million consumer health records have been exposed so far in 2019.
A US congressional committee on Monday asked for a briefing on a Google project to modernize healthcare while giving the internet titan access to millions of people's medical data. read more
The healthcare industry has been overwhelmingly targeted by Trojan malware during the last year, which increased by 82 percent in Q3 2019 over the previous quarter, according to Malwarebytes. The...