Security

At the Cybersecurity Forum, Mitch Parker encourages communications and planning that involve the entire enterprise.

Many health organizations still do not appreciate the risks they are facing from determined hackers.

At the CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum, the infamous former black-hat showed how social engineering puts systems at risk -- and how to build a human firewall to protect against it.

The new tools include connectivity, security, protection against ransomware and other technologies that the company has tuned specifically for healthcare.  

The settlement comes three years after two laptops were stolen from Horizon BCBSNJ's Newark headquarters. According to New Jersey officials, health data was left vulnerable as it was password-protected but not encrypted, as required by HIPAA and HITECH.

The Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights said more than 115,000 people had their PHI accessed and disclosed.

The security vendor’s research also found that Internet of Things and medical devices are at the center of the storm.

Hosted in Washington by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the event aims to find ways to deploy the emerging technology in healthcare to solve issues such as identity management, data aggregation and more.

Infosec expert Stephen Cobb says chief information officers score high in conscientiousness and openness and low in neuroticism. And while the pipeline of upcoming CISOs is thin right now, today’s leaders are getting better at their job. 

The partnership is designed to give healthcare organizations the ability to deploy on-premises flash arrays supported by cloud infrastructure for hybrid cloud, backup and disaster recovery systems.