Photo: Optum Technology As part of the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum virtual event December 6-7, Aimee Cardwell, the chief information security officer for the UnitedHealth Group at Optum Technology, will dig into the subject of ransomware in an educational session…
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Ransomware in the Health Industry: Resiliency and Response
Digital transformation has increased exponentially in the healthcare industry over the past year, as organizations harness the power of digital to reach patients, accelerate research and develop new therapies to beat the global pandemic. Unfortunately, this digital transformation has been…
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Zero trust network access helps secure North Country Healthcare's systems
Photo: North Country HealthCare Just over a year ago, North Country Healthcare relied on VPN access for every vendor, leading to what its chief information officer described as another piece of paper with login credentials sitting out in the open…
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Dos and don'ts for managing ransomware risk in healthcare
Photo: Akamai By now it should come as no surprise to anyone in the industry that healthcare is the juiciest target for hackers attacking with ransomware. In a nutshell, healthcare has the most valuable data and has not fully deployed…
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CIOs and innovation officers bolster clinical informatics, cyber defenses and more
Photo: NYU Langone Medical Center When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, many IT leaders shadowed clinical staff to view first-hand the support those clinicians needed on the front lines. And often they learned some valuable lessons. Meanwhile, while healthcare organizations and…
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CIS launches no-cost ransomware service for U.S. hospitals
The nonprofit Center for Internet Security announced this week that it had launched a no-cost ransomware protection service for private hospitals in the United States. The Malicious Domain Blocking and Reporting service, which is already available for public hospitals,…
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Telehealth poses big cybersecurity dangers, Harvard researchers warn
A Harvard Medical School team published a letter in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week warning of the “substantial” information security concerns around telehealth. The authors, led by organizational cybersecurity researcher Mohammad S. Jalali, note that…
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What's next for cybersecurity in 2021? Ransomware-as-a-service, DDoS and more
This year saw unprecedented changes in the cybersecurity landscape, with rapid telehealth rollouts and massive shifts to at-home work highlighting new vulnerabilities. In 2021, experts predicted at the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum this week, bad actors will likely use tried-and-true…
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Major security incidents are the new normal for hospitals and health systems
The 2020 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey gathered feedback from 168 US based healthcare cybersecurity professionals – mostly IT and infosec leaders at provider organizations, but also some consultants and vendors – to offer an updated snapshot showing the of the current…
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Amazon security tool can help automate risk management readiness
Healthcare is no stranger to security frameworks the can help provider organizations get their arms around sprawling and detailed infosec challenges through concrete checklists and sets of best practices. They’re hugely helpful, even if far too few providers make use…
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