Privacy & Security

Four experts in healthcare cloud computing offer CIOs and other health IT workers who are starting – or maintaining – cloud migrations some well-rounded advice.

With increasing buzz around population health and social determinants of health, those two forces are poised to change philosophies around care delivery and how a hospital or health system works to keep the surrounding community healthy.

Users are no longer the weakest link in the security chain, claims Adrien Gendre, chief solutions architect at Vade Secure, who discusses the biggest threats to email security and AI-originated phishing attacks.

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA), a statutory board under the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Singapore, said in a statement on March 15 that one of its vendors, Secur Solutions Group Pte Ltd (SSG), had failed to properly secure a HSA database against access over the Internet.

There are unique security challenges of the healthcare industry, including a skills shortage and regulatory landscape, according to Mimecast’s Josh Douglas and Dino DiMarino, who share how to meet those challenges.

Joyce Brocaglia, CEO of Alta Associates and founder of Executive Women's Forum, details the need to fill board of director seats with people with security skills as well as diversifying cybersecurity teams.

The industry has some unique challenges to tackle and moving to the cloud often leads to breaches.

A lot of attention is focused on network access security; it can be easy to overlook the vulnerability of data at the edge.

The major themes at RSA include AI skepticism, challenges with diversity and workforce development, and how to incorporate agile tactics into cybersecurity best practices, says Tom Sullivan, editor-in-chief of Healthcare IT News.

Dame Fiona Caldicott has been appointed as the first statutory national data guardian for health and social care, nearly five years after the role was first created.