Privacy & Security
Some major hospital systems are seeing an increase in ransomware attacks, which is forcing them to ask a difficult question: give into criminal demands or not?
Stephen Nardone had just 15 minutes to deliver an impactful presentation Tuesday at the Privacy & Security Forum in Boston. He used numbers to drive the risk factors home.
The global healthcare cybersecurity market is expected to exceed $10 million by 2022. To be exact, a new report pegs the market at $10,848.87 million in U.S. dollars.
Cyber czar Richard Clarke shared his insights about the many different and dangerous types of security threats facing healthcare organizations at the Privacy & Security Forum in Boston on Tuesday.
Jennifer Horowitz, Senior Director of Research at HIMSS, highlights the findings from the 2015 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey and some of the key takeaways from the responses and the implications on the industry.
Daniel Nigrin, MD, CIO at Boston Children's Hospital, describes his experience dealing with a cyberattack at the hospital by notorious hacktivist group, Anonymous.
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The days of James Bond and his world-saving exploits are over. In today's reality, nation-states and their criminal partners can disrupt commerce and defenses in the free world from the safety and comfort of their computer desks.
Phishing is much more than just a creatively-misspelled word. It's a key motivator for health organizations' increased focus on security. In fact, says one HIMSS researcher, it's the "number one thing that keeps CISOs up at night."
Think you've seen a lot of intrusion attempts and malware at your hospital? The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which operates some 1,700 hospitals and healthcare facilities, reported more than 235 million blocked intrusion attempts just for the month of August.