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Jessica Davis

Jessica Davis

Jessica Davis is Senior Editor for Healthcare IT News, exclusively covering cybersecurity and government policy. She writes the bi-weekly HITN Cybersecurity Checkup and is lead editor for Women in Health IT.

By Jessica Davis | 08:05 am | October 20, 2016
The intent is to help healthcare CIO and CISOs improve IT compliance and risk management posture, as well as information resource management.
By Jessica Davis | 01:14 pm | October 19, 2016
The biggest problem? Outdated IT and tight budgets make it hard to fend off growing throngs of hackers.
By Jessica Davis | 08:01 am | October 19, 2016
The strain adds a level of complication to decryption by encrypting every file with a unique key. And it may be able to fly under the radar of anti-ransomware software.
By Jessica Davis | 11:53 am | October 18, 2016
The initiative has added a WildFire decryptor and deprived cybercriminals of an estimated 1.35 million euros since its inception in July.
By Jessica Davis | 07:50 am | October 18, 2016
Managing user privileges is among the most basic practices in any security strategy. Establishing a process also paves the way for other tactics, like provisioning and bridging the gap between IT and HR, that can keep internal and external threats at bay. Experts divulge insights and best practices. 
By Jessica Davis | 04:12 pm | October 17, 2016
The academic medical center also intends to open eight precision medicine centers to advance technologies and measurement tools to improve patient care.
By Jessica Davis | 07:29 am | October 17, 2016
Hint: It’s not the steady stream of data breaches. But they are walking the same tightrope. 
By Jessica Davis | 01:56 pm | October 14, 2016
The president, along with researchers and scientists, explored the ways technology will improve healthcare and other industries at the day-long conference on Thursday.
By Jessica Davis | 09:01 am | October 12, 2016
The company is said to be the first in healthcare to achieve this validation, which ensures the payment network has met standards to protect data.
By Jessica Davis | 08:27 am | October 12, 2016
Executives at the World Privacy Forum and Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology said that the availability of EHR data is outpacing demand, which means that cybercriminals have to undertake more attacks to steal the same amount of money.