Privacy & Security
While meeting demands set by cybercriminals may solve the problem short-term, the FBI director tells hospitals it will come back to haunt them.
Variants masked as legitimate, existing monitoring tools can gain full network and data access of the victim.
THA’s cybersecurity awareness program hopes to better prepare hospitals to fend off hackers focused on healthcare.
The hacker had warned Aesthetic Dentistry and OC Gastrocare in 2016 to pay to keep the records private, but the extortion attempt failed.
And physicians, nurses, executives and other healthcare staff are all carrying devices that are easily lost or stolen.
Electronic Health Records
Cybercriminals can find databases left exposed on outdated or free platforms as easily as searching on the word ‘patient,’ according to DataBreaches.net.
While 40 percent are running projects, IDC says 73 percent of executives are prepared to start Internet of Things work this year.
Governance, training and, yes, monitoring can go a long way to reducing a system’s risk, expert says.
Leaders are intrigued by the digital ledger technology's potential, but intrigue alone won’t get it past regulations.
The two-day conference in San Francisco during May will also include best practices and proven approaches as well as projections about the future of cybersecurity.