Privacy & Security
"The AHA cannot support proposals for mandatory cybersecurity requirements being levied on hospitals as if they were at fault for the success of hackers in perpetrating a crime," says Rick Pollack, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association.
Members impacted by the breach are being provided with no-cost credit monitoring and identity restoration services.
According to court documents and public reporting, Vladimir Dunaev provided specialized services and technical abilities in furtherance of the Trickbot scheme.
Some healthcare organizations use homegrown tracking technologies to avoid third-party disclosures of protected information, but all have to understand if their practices comply with applicable privacy laws, says Betsy Hodge, partner at Akerman.
The organization reported that it detected intrusion over the Thanksgiving holiday. All clinics and the MyChart patient portal are operating.
"When we see a vulnerability or intrusion campaign that could have been reasonably avoided if the software manufacturer had aligned to secure by design principles, we’ll call it out," writes CISA cybersecurity leaders Eric Goldstein and Bob Lord.
Dan Draper, founder and CEO of CipherStash, explains data protection advancements leveraging heuristics and encryption-in-use technologies. He warns of a looming Y2K-like race to update software for quantum safety.
From generative AI to intelligent automation to cybersecurity, they discuss what CIOs and IT leaders should stay focused on as the healthcare industry continues to evolve.
Ardent proactively took its network offline, suspending all user access to its IT applications, including corporate servers and Epic software.
Data security protections also remain weak.