Privacy & Security

Last year’s WannaCry ransomware attack on the UK health service did more than expose weaknesses in healthcare cyber resilience – it also highlighted weaknesses in emergency responses to healthcare cyber attacks.

The Attorney General also banned the former business associate of Virtua Medical Group from doing business in the state for accidentally uploading 1,654 patient files to an FTP server left open to the public.

Introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden, the Consumer Data Protection Act overhauls internet privacy protections and gives FTC the authority to create standards and penalize law-breakers.

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.