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How Hospitals Can Safely & Effectively Continue Patient Care Amid Rising Cybersecurity Risks

by Andrew Brooks, M.D., Co-Founder and CMO at TigerConnect 03/14/2023 Leave a Comment

The world we live in is becoming increasingly integrated, and as it does, the amount of data also increases. It is estimated that 2.5 quintillion bytes – that’s 2,500,00,00,000 million, for perspective – are created, captured, and shared every day, and experts predict that number will grow exponentially in the coming years. Estimates show that the healthcare industry generates about 30% of the world’s data volume. That number is expected to reach a compound annual growth rate of 36% within the
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How and Why Device-as-a-Service Should Be an Employee Benefit

by Falk Sonnenschmidt, SVP of Strategy at Everphone 02/21/2023 Leave a Comment

How and Why Device-as-a-Service Should Be an Employee Benefit

The Great Resignation changed how companies approach attracting and retaining talent. These days, it’s not enough to offer a competitive salary and traditional benefits like health insurance and a 401k. Employees have put an increased focus on flexibility – and the tools that support it. Phones and tablets aren’t the flashiest perk a company can offer. Still, they’re the type of lifestyle benefit that offers clear value for employees – and helps address pain points for companies
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Cybersecurity: Is SOC2 Worth The Hype for Healthcare Organizations?

by Ankit Kumar Agarwal, Director-IT Delivery Services at NewWave Telecom & Technologies Inc. 01/17/2023 Leave a Comment

4 Data Security Challenges for Healthcare Organizations in 2022

The healthcare industry has always been a prominent target for cybercriminals worldwide. They can access high-value patient PHI/PII data and use it maliciously to disrupt the patient’s treatment routine and bring down uptime, which is critical. It has repercussions on patients, doctors, hospitals, and everything associated with the healthcare ecosystem. Information security is a reason for concern for all organizations, including those that outsource key business operations to third-party
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Security and Compliance Oversight Will Reduce Business Communication Risk for Healthcare in 2023

by Rusty Carter, Chief Product Officer at SafeGuard Cyber 01/04/2023 Leave a Comment

Security and Compliance Oversight Will Reduce Business Communication Risk for Healthcare in 2023

Cyber attacks on healthcare organizations are by no means just as simple as hackers going after healthcare data for the sake of obtaining critical data of patients, their families, or the organization's employees. A growing number of these attacks are executed by nation-states and other organized criminal organizations, which have the financial resources and the expertise to launch ever-more sophisticated and costly assaults against these organizations. Some of these attacks have been traced
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Protecting AI’s Boundless Potential in Healthcare

by Mike Frane, VP of Product Management at Windstream Enterprise 12/08/2022 Leave a Comment

Protecting AI’s Boundless Potential in Healthcare

Artificial intelligence can do amazing things for patients, providers and the healthcare business — but only if the right cyber safeguards are in place. For more than a decade, a cybercrime syndicate known as Evil Corp has tormented organizations around the world with malware and ransomware attacks. And now, it seems, the group has designs on healthcare companies.  “Evil Corp should be considered a significant threat to the U.S. health sector,” the Health Sector Cybersecurity
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Keeping Telehealth in Great (Security) Shape

by Mattias Fridström, Chief Evangelist at Arelion 11/22/2022 Leave a Comment

Keeping Telehealth in Great (Security) Shape

COVID-19 turned telehealth into a household term, transforming the services that healthcare providers can offer patients. Thanks to advancements in connectivity, global experts in rare procedures and conditions can connect virtually to share knowledge with local medical practitioners and surgeons – and can conduct remote consultations in the comfort and privacy of patients’ homes worldwide. Telehealth is still viable and very important to connect patients to healthcare providers, even as the
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Patching Cybersecurity Gaps in Healthcare, with New FDA Guidelines and Zero Trust

by Trevor Dearing, Director of Critical Infrastructure Solutions at Illumio 10/27/2022 Leave a Comment

Patching’ Cybersecurity Gaps in Healthcare, with New FDA Guidelines and Zero Trust

When it comes to protecting patients from the impacts of ransomware, the time has come for the healthcare sector to rethink the way it approaches cyber resilience -- starting with Zero Trust strategies.  The unprecedented wave of ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector has upended long-held assumptions about network security. Confidence in traditional methods alone and the philosophies behind them, have been undermined. The ransomware era has become a time of reckoning – particularly
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Is Telehealth Healthcare’s Biggest Cyber Threat?

by Mike Wilkes, Chief Information Security Officer, SecurityScorecard 06/08/2022 Leave a Comment

Is Telehealth Healthcare’s Biggest Cyber Threat?

It’s time to get used to seeing your doctor from a digital screen, as virtual care is projected to expand well into the future. And while telehealth technology has proven to be highly beneficial in supporting the shift to virtual healthcare, it has also introduced a host of new vulnerabilities and opportunities for security breaches. Cybercriminals have always preyed on the healthcare industry, but with this virtual transition, the substantial increase in connectivity and network exposure has
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Greenway Health Launches Greenway Secure Cloud

by Jasmine Pennic 06/02/2022 Leave a Comment

Greenway Health Launches Greenway Secure Cloud

What You Should Know: - Greenway Health, a leading health information technology services provider, launched Greenway Secure Cloud, a cost-effective, fully bundled, cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) and practice management solution. Greenway Secure Cloud increases the security of patient health information and practice records, eliminates the need to manage software upgrades, and provides scalable, all-inclusive pricing
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Cynerio Discovers Vulnerabilities to Remotely Control Hospital Robots

by Fred Pennic 04/15/2022 Leave a Comment

Cynerio Discovers Vulnerabilities to Remotely Control Hospital Robots

What You Should Know: - Cynerio, a provider of healthcare IoT security solutions, announced the discovery, exploitation, and disclosure of five zero-day vulnerabilities collectively known as JekyllBot:5, that affect commonly used robots found in hundreds of hospitals worldwide. - Vulnerabilities found in Aethon Tug hospital robots could allow attackers to circumvent security and remotely surveil and interact with patients, obstruct medication distribution, and disrupt day-to-day hospital
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