Privacy & Security

While Longs Peak Family Practice was investigating a Nov. 5 ransomware attack, its infosec team discovered another hack into its system on Nov. 10.

The North Korean government’s malicious activity also made it into this month’s cybersecurity report from HIMSS.

Cybersecurity has become an extremely complex field and chief information security officers need a specific body of knowledge – and a smart staff to handle the rest.

We look back at 2017 and the stories that struck a chord with readers – the new tech, policy changes and the sagas. Take a moment to reflect on a busy year. 

Center for Connected Medicine survey finds 92 percent plan to increase spending to keep IT systems safe; report also tracked potential buyers' plans in 2018 for predictive analytics, artificial intelligence and more.

The state has been unable to determine whether breached information was seen by a third party, but officials said names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers may have been compromised.

Every user has access to applications and resources to do their job and segmentation keeps threats contained.

Consider behavioral-based privilege, user monitoring and remember not all anti-virus software is protection enough.

All of the company’s public-facing URLs redirected users to another site that threatened to release patient data if MEDHOST didn’t pay an extortion fee.

Symantec and Digital Guardian are among the most deployed, offering one-stop-shopping across multiple areas; Proofpoint boasts strong functionality, optimization.