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Zero Clients: The New Face of Security for Healthcare

by Mark Kempf, VP, CP Technologies & CP Systems at CP North America 03/29/2022 Leave a Comment

Zero Clients: The New Face of Security for Healthcare

Healthcare data is notoriously vulnerable to hacking. The pandemic has stretched industry resources thin, and data quality and security are suffering as a result. In addition, the rise in mobile applications, the adoption of mobile workstations, and the ease with which organizations can now expand into cloud accounts have made the industry more vulnerable than ever before. In short, “the attack surface” is now expansive. According to IDC, an astounding 36% of the world’s
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What Healthcare Leaders Need to Do Now About Ransomware

by Aaron Biehl, SVP, Meriplex 03/21/2022 Leave a Comment

What Healthcare Leaders Need to Do Now About Ransomware

If ransomware is not a topic of conversation around any healthcare organization’s boardroom table, directors and senior executives may be exposing the organization (and themselves) to considerable risk. Here’s a guide to ransomware trends for 2022 and steps healthcare leaders can take to help protect their organizations. Ransomware trends in 2022 The risk of a ransomware attack in 2022 is substantial, with gangs specializing in targeting the healthcare sector. Last year saw dozens of
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Day 3 HIMSS Roundup: Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT, GE Healthcare/AliveCor Integration

by HIMSS22 Summary 03/16/2022 Leave a Comment

HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions,

Venture Capital, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT® to Expand Diabetes Offerings in France Glooko, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring and data management solutions for diabetes and related chronic conditions, today announced the acquisition of DIABNEXT, a Paris-based company whose digital health platform helps people with diabetes better manage their conditions and connects to their healthcare providers, so they can
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Healthcare Is A Cyber Criminal’s Dream, But It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way

by Vidya Murthy, Chief Operating Officer at MedCrypt 02/24/2022 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Cyber Events are Common, But It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way

Healthcare is a cyber criminal’s dream. It presents the intersection of a data treasure trove, weak security posture, limited resources, complicated supply chain, and patient care delivery. When faced with having to pick a priority to optimize for, healthcare will, of course, always pick delivering healthcare. This means that when tradeoffs must be made and resources are limited immediate patient care is prioritized over anything else.  A great example of this is looking at how
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6 Healthcare Cybersecurity, Ransomware Predictions to Watch in 2022

by Fred Pennic 01/26/2022 Leave a Comment

Protecting Medical Device Security in the Age of Ransomware

We reached out to six healthcare executives for their trends and predictions on healthcare cybersecurity and ransomware to watch in 2022. Milan Shah, Chief Technology Officer of Biofourmis Cyberattacks on hospitals and health systems will continue their rapid pace in 2022, but as more providers launch hospitals at home and remote patient management programs and the technology has to traverse enterprise firewall boundaries, it provides attackers an extensive new surface area to attack.
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Revenue Cycle Management Can Help Advance The Cybersecurity Mandate

by John Talaga, EVP & GM, Healthcare & David King, CTO at Flywire 01/11/2022 Leave a Comment

Revenue Cycle Management Can Help Advance The Cybersecurity Mandate

Holding steady in the No. 1 spot, the healthcare industry has held the top rank in IBM’s Cost of Data Breach report for the past 11 years. It’s a lead that seems secure. In just a year from 2020-2021, the average total cost for healthcare for an event increased 29.5%, and now sits at $9.23 million.  Even amidst that threat landscape, the percentage those in the healthcare space spend on cybersecurity hasn’t climbed out of the single digits. Only 6% or less of the IT budget is typically
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2 Overlooked Cost-Effective Healthcare Cybersecurity Strategies to Minimize Risk

by Richard Lang, Director of Data Center Services at HST Pathways 10/27/2021 Leave a Comment

2 Overlooked Cost-Effective Healthcare Cybersecurity Strategies to Minimize Risk

The Office of the White House recently issued a Proclamation marking October as Cyber Security Awareness Month and shared this year’s theme: “Do Your Part. Be Cyber Smart.” Threats are indeed on the rise, posing a significant risk to private businesses, public infrastructure, and national security, especially as the nation has increasingly adapted to a remote environment in the continuing battle against COVID. As businesses look to “do their part” to combat cybersecurity threats, they will need
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What COVID-19’s Attack on Healthcare Cybersecurity Taught Us About Its Shortcomings

by Avi Philipson, Head of Operations at Axis Health 08/17/2021 Leave a Comment

What COVID-19's Attack on Healthcare Cybersecurity Taught Us About Its Shortcomings

In the early chaos of the coronavirus pandemic, the healthcare industry struggled to keep up with an influx of patients amidst a shortage of necessary resources. During this time, healthcare staff naturally prioritized the health and safety of their patients, but this led to a marked decline of cybersecurity measures, leaving themselves open to attacks. Cybercriminals took advantage of the opportunity, and since the start of the pandemic to late 2020, cyberattacks on healthcare firms in the
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3 Ways Healthcare Orgs Can Work to Prevent Insider Security Threats

by Sanjay Joshi, Global CIO Healthcare and Life Sciences at Tanium 08/16/2021 Leave a Comment

Why Healthcare’s Most Overlooked Security Threat Comes From Inside — and How to Prevent It

Though it’s often “highly sophisticated” or “nation-state” attackers that make headlines, the truth is that healthcare’s most overlooked cybersecurity threats are within the IT ecosystem. In fact, according to Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, nearly 40 percent of all global security incidents in 2020 were caused by inside actors. These insider threats are often not malicious in nature, but accidental errors, such as employees clicking on phishing links, using weak passwords, or
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4 Key Constraints Preventing Healthcare from Proper Cybersecurity

by Seth Carmody, VP of Regulatory Strategy at MedCrypt 08/02/2021 Leave a Comment

4 Key Constraints Preventing Healthcare from Proper Cybersecurity

Healthcare was created to help people. So why is this industry the most heavily targeted by cybercriminals and ransomware attacks? In the first half of 2020 alone, the Department of Health and Human Services saw a nearly 50% increase in the number of healthcare-related cybersecurity breaches. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the healthcare industry to operate at a level that it wasn’t prepared for, which meant emergency facilities were erected without proper security measures in place in order to
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