Security News

AMCA Breach: Many More Impacted Healthcare Firms Come Forward
2019-07-22 16:19

Many more healthcare companies in the United States published press releases last week to inform customers that they had been impacted by the data breach suffered by the American Medical...

Healthcare’s blind spot: Unmanaged IoT and medical devices
2019-07-22 05:45

From imaging to monitoring systems, infusion pumps to therapeutic lasers and life support machines, medical devices are used to improve and streamline patient care. Many of these are networked and...

Why 70% of healthcare orgs have suffered data breaches
2019-07-17 13:50

Digital transformation initiatives bring a slew of data privacy concerns to US health organizations, according to a Thales report.

Yearly hidden costs of managing vendor risk? $3.8 million per healthcare provider
2019-07-16 05:00

The inability to adequately assess and understand the risks that vendors pose is becoming incredibly costly to healthcare providers, according to a new report by Censinet and the Ponemon...

How well are healthcare organizations protecting patient information?
2019-07-15 05:00

Healthcare organizations have high levels of confidence in their cybersecurity preparedness despite most of them using only basic user authentication methods in the face of an increasing number of...

Tackling Healthcare's IAM Challenge
2019-07-05 17:48

Jigar Kadakia of Partners HealthCare on How to Resolve Access Issues for Medical ProfessionalsThe traditional IAM strategy has been to tie individual users with a unique device. But that doesn't...

Healthcare Security: Tactics for Reducing Risk
2019-07-03 20:48

IBM's Christopher Bontempo on Where to Focus for Quick ResultsReducing risk is a tall order, but IBM's Christopher Bontempo says healthcare security leaders can get immediate and measurable...

How the healthcare industry can improve online trust
2019-07-01 05:30

Privacy on the internet is important in all industries, but none more so than the healthcare sector, which handles mass amounts of online health data daily. While any data loss (financial,...

Tales From the SOC: Healthcare Edition
2019-06-25 15:20

Over the past ten years, I have led and supported incident response engagements across nearly every industry vertical and trained security teams of all sizes to develop and improve their detection...