Privacy & Security

Lorraine Bessmer, senior cybersecurity analyst at St. Luke's Health System, says a lack of third-party cybersecurity standards is hampering hospital-vendor partnerships.

As the role of the CISO evolves, so too does the threat landscape, the infrastructure that needs safeguarding and the policy imperatives shaping the mission of data protection.

While the shift is necessary, the transition period will likely see hackers targeting newly vulnerable information, said Halamka.

Security pros are being outmaneuvered, not outsmarted, said Michael Coates at the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum in Boston.

 A report from charity Privacy International claims that a DHSC contract lacks transparency and prioritises commercial interest.

IT security is a legacy word, says Brian Selfridge: "This isn't cybersecurity, this is risk."

Risk can have a profound impact on the financial health of any organization, where sensitive information is often hosted on outside servers.

VPN vulnerabilities, variations of "the Blues" and PACS imaging servers are among the risks the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center, or HC3, is tracking.

Coagulase-negative staphylococcus. Acinetobacter species. Escherichia coli. Klebsiella pneumoniae. Pseudomonas species. Enterococcus species. Staphylococcus aureus. These are just some of the pathogens that researchers found on 80% of mobile phones used at a tertiary care teaching hospital and on 81% of the clinicians’ hands that handled those phones.

A security expert offers a variety of suggestions for how to improve security training to effectively beat the threat of ransomware and other criminal mischief.