Privacy & Security

The new Veterans Community will support veteran workforce development and transition to civilian life for former members of any branch of the U.S. military and their spouses.

The expectation is for a new Congress to create policy around AI and cybersecurity, says Tom Leary of HIMSS.

The computing giant says it will phase its roll-out of required multifactor authentication to all users worldwide next year. 

Greg Garcia, executive director of the Health Sector Coordinating Council's Cybersecurity Working Group, says breaches have increased 250% over the past five years – and ransomware attacks are up 280%. Here's what health systems can do in response.

Also: Kaiser Permanente reported that an unauthorized party gained access to the email accounts of two workforce members and viewed patient health information. 

Eric Liederman, chief executive officer of CyberSolutionsMD, says developing an "all of us approach" on what to do and how to do it can help even advanced organizations protect healthcare delivery when ransomware hits or affects a nearby hospital.

Hospitals didn't have Change Healthcare on their radar as a risk when the ransomware attack affected them, says John Riggi.

Jonathan Bauer, CIO at Atlantic General Hospital Health System, says when Change Healthcare was attacked and Atlantic couldn't bill for a month, it helped bring the need for a robust cybersecurity system front of mind to board members.

Information telemetry and analysis can be aided by component pieces of large language models, says Darren Lacey, CISO at Johns Hopkins.

At the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Thursday, leaders from the Health Sector Coordinating Council offered advice for a collaborative layered defense to help health systems bolster responsiveness and stabilize their security postures.