Security

Healthcare security experts argue that hospitals must ensure high availability of medical devices and IT systems with practices that resemble preventing and treating disease. Because ransomware is a symptom rather than the problem. 

While Check Point’s report didn’t break down the infected countries by industry, healthcare security leaders should add this newest outbreak to their threat intelligence radar and monitor for any developments.

Not only telehealth, but cloud-based EHRs and remote monitoring connectivity could all be affected by regulation rollbacks, Health Affairs says.

Complacency is not an option where malicious individuals can take advantage of application and infrastructure vulnerabilities to access protected health info.

Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting speaker proposals for the Boston Healthcare Security Forum, Sept. 11-13.

The Texas health system officials say patient safety wasn’t affected, but patients contacted Austin’s KXAN with their concerns.

Cisco will build new applications for IBM’s platform that hospital security teams can use to better understand and respond to advanced threats.

The embattled biotech mogul will join Sutter Health informaticist Steven Lane, MD and Norton Healthcare CIO Steve Ready on the HHS task force established by the 21st Century Cures Act.

An alarming percentage of organizations don’t encrypt sensitive data in public cloud databases and too many have resources exposed to the internet.

Organizations can take these practical approaches to ramping up talent recruiting, hiring and retention practices specifically for infosec pros.