Security

The new HHS-DHS Health Cybersecurity Coordination Center, HC3, replaces the Healthcare Cybersecurity Communications and Integration Center after a year of turmoil and unraveling.

We took a pulse of the state of infosec, heard experts rate industry maturity and learned smart tactics for advancing your security posture.

A new Symantec report finds the notorious, highly targeted virus is primarily hitting the U.S. – especially the healthcare sector, where hackers may believe orgs are more likely to pay.

Jane Harper, Director Privacy & Security Risk Management at Henry Ford Health System, discusses how third party risk management should be viewed like a romantic relationship – from the dating stage through the prenup, marriage, and even divorce.

Synthetic ID theft, infosec dashboards, the real weakest link and more factored into the security conversation during October.  

Hackers can perform synthetic identify theft long after a cybersecurity event by piecing together data to conduct medical and insurance fraud.

Veracode found that the healthcare and retail sectors are reducing risk the fastest among other industries, but 75 percent of employees struggle with identifying best practices.

But like with most things in healthcare, organizations need to keep following up after choosing the right vendor and signing an airtight contract to best protect data.

Take our quick survey, and we'll report on the results, so you can get a sense of what your peers are using/leaning on to keep pace with hackers.

While investigating one phishing attack in August, medical center officials discovered a hacker had access to three accounts for more than a month.