As hacking incidents have become the leading cause behind healthcare breaches for several years, minimizing your risk of being targeted is crucial. Security Risk Assessments and Remediation Security risk assessments(SRAs) are vital for security and compliance. An SRA aims to identify weaknesses and vu...
The repercussions of such breaches aren’t abstract. When healthcare organizations lose control of their infrastructure, it presents real risks to patient safety, continuity of care and clinical decision-making processes. For instance, if the systems managing a patient’s Electronic Medical Record...
On March 23, 2022, lawmakers introduced a new bill, the Healthcare Cybersecurity Act of 2022, which would direct the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to collaborate on how to im
Posted in: Healthcare Cybersecurity OCR Offers Advice on Recognizing, Avoiding, and Mitigating Social Engineering Attacks Posted October 28, 2024 by Steve Alder The majority of healthcare data breaches reported in the past few years are due to hacking incidents but many of these security incidents...
A Colorado-based pathology laboratory is notifying more than 1.8 million patients that their sensitive information was compromised in an April hack, one of the largest breaches reported by a medical testing lab to U.S. federal regulators to date. Ransomware gang Medusa is blamed for the attack....
The Healthcare Cybersecurity Act would further cement the relationship between HHS and CISA while improving security within the sector. "These attacks and breaches of data can literally mean the difference between life and death for patients, significantly impact hospital operations, and --...
Change Healthcare responded to the attack by disconnecting more than 111 different services across its system to prevent further damage. The company also engaged with law enforcement and cybersecurity firms to contain and remediate the ransomware risk. ...
Nature and impact of healthcare data breaches Cost of security incidents Usage of gen AI in healthcare and cybersecurity challenges Penalties for HIPAA violations The most important statistics Number of data compromises in the U.S. healthcare sector 2005-2023 ...
Cybersecurity's importance in the healthcare industry will continue to grow over the short-to-medium term, as hospitals globally face increasingly damaging breaches after a decade of increased cyber criminal activity.We expect that Russian cyberattacks will be mostly focused on Ukrainian targets, and...
Each year, the Internet Crime Report is released, examining breaches from the previous. 2022 saw some interesting trends in healthcare.