In 2023, HHS and the Health Sector Coordinating Council issued a comprehensivelandscape analysisthat explored the state of cybersecurity resilience in U.S. hospitals. The landscape analysis revealed significant gaps in hospital cyber-resilience, including underuse of multifactor authentication (MFA) and...
IBM’s Institute for Business Value recommended that hospitals interested in implementing a new collar jobs approach begin by re-examining their current workforce strategy. This should include an analysis of what skills are critical today and which ones you anticipate needing in the future and,...
hospitals and moreusing Crowdstrike’s Falcon EDR product on Microsoft Windows machines was a prime reminder of our dependence on computers and software. It should be of little solace that the cause wasdue to poor quality control at Crowdstrikerather than a cyberattack. ...
In February, Change Healthcaredisclosed it was hit by a ransomware attack, leading to issues for physicians, hospitals, pharmacies and patients. In March, a researcherrevealed a backdoorin the open source XZ Utils, a compression library used in many Linux distributions. In May, attackersbreached ...
communicate and go about doing their jobs in the event of an attack. The details of a BC/DR plan may vary depending on the size, scope, and workings of the company. Also, it is crucial to understand that physical, HR, and IT plans cannot be developed independently of each other in ...
Cybersecurity often seems to just get in the way of people trying to do their jobs and when those jobs help save people’s lives, it matters. However, cybersecurity in healthcare is not straightforward. The data that are collected, stored and used are valuable and precious, and the w...
Fast forward to today in 2024, and the situation has only become worse. A few weeks ago (June, 2024), members of Congress raised concerns over the shortage of cybersecurity professionals, which has now grown to a half million open jobs that cannot be ...
a cybersecurity attack can result in everything from identity theft, to extortion attempts, to the loss of important data like family photos. Everyone relies on critical infrastructure like power plants, hospitals, and financial service companies. Securing these and other organizations is essential to...
Today, Microsoft is launching a four-year campaign to help fill 250,000 cybersecurity jobs in the United States by the middle of this decade.This will address half of the nation’s cybersecurity workforce shortage. Our initial commitment...
Pichai said there are currently more than 650,000 open cybersecurity jobs and there is a need for a diverse workforce to address the issue. “We have seen this in the past when we’ve gone to communities and open data centers in rural communities,” he said. “It creates a spark. It...