August 30, 2024

The Impact of Cyberattacks on Hospital Patients

Hospitals and healthcare providers have increasingly become targets of cyberattacks, which pose significant risks to patient care and safety. This document examines the various ways in which cyberattacks can disrupt hospital operations, compromise patient data security, and ultimately affect the quality of patient care. It also explores strategies and best practices that hospitals can implement to mitigate these risks and enhance their cybersecurity posture.

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August 14, 2024

HIPAA Compliance Checklist

Whether you’re a healthcare provider or a third-party contractor storing protected health information (PHI), you likely wrestle with HIPAA compliance. HIPAA is one of the more strict compliance regulations and it’s difficult to navigate...

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August 14, 2024

Protecting Your Customers from Spoofed and Modified Email Messages

Email protocols and the system that allows us to communicate with electronic messaging have been around for decades. The original system built in the 1970s wasn’t created with spoofing and phishing in mind. Weak communication protocols between sender and receiver have led to numerous critical data breaches from email-based attacks. The success of attacks stems from the way email protocols work, but businesses can protect themselves using DMARC policies set up as DNS entries.

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August 14, 2024

Taking an Executive Approach to Cyber Risks

Network administrators, security analysts, and software developers have a technical approach to risk management, whereas executives and a business’ board of directors have an economic one. The board of directors wants to know the monetary impact and responsibilities surrounding threats and risk management.

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Operationalizing Cyber Resilience in Healthcare
August 14, 2024

Operationalizing Cyber Resilience in Healthcare

The healthcare sector faced a staggering 156% increase in breached records in 2023. The concern goes beyond just alarming statistics: Breaches pose a direct risk to patient safety by disrupting essential healthcare services, including eligibility verification, prescription processing, and hospital discharge procedures.

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Protecting Healthcare Legacy Systems with Micro-Segmentation
August 14, 2024

Protecting Healthcare Legacy Systems with Micro-Segmentation

Segmentation in network environments is nothing new. It’s common for administrators to segment the network based on logical functions and security controls. For example, the finance department is one segment, and the sales department is another segment. All segments can send traffic to email servers (for example), but user traffic does not enter finance or sales segments unless the user is authorized to access them.

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The Power of Templates: From Crayons to Incident Response
August 2, 2024

The Power of Templates: From Crayons to Incident Response

In the business world, particularly cybersecurity, organizations often struggle to respond efficiently and effectively to incidents. The lack of standardized processes can lead to chaos, delays, and significant impacts on business operations.

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Dangers of Unpatched Healthcare IoT and Network Systems
August 1, 2024

Dangers of Unpatched Healthcare IoT and Network Systems

It’s not uncommon for large healthcare organizations to support patients via thousands of systems––servers, network hardware, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices particular to the medical practice. Healthcare organizations are primary targets for attackers and are required to follow strict regulations to stop data breaches. HIPAA violations are costly, and unpatched hardware leaves healthcare systems vulnerable to numerous threats including malware, ransomware, security bypasses, and possible remote code execution. Patching systems with the latest update is critical to data protection and risk management, and it keeps the company compliant with HIPAA guidelines.

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Complete Guide to Ransomware Protection
August 1, 2024

Complete Guide to Ransomware Protection

With a countless number of reported ransomware attacks every month, it seems like the cybersecurity industry is losing its battle with cyber-criminals...

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Healthcare Cybersecurity Enhancement Checklist
March 27, 2024

Healthcare Cybersecurity Enhancement Checklist

Healthcare weathered a massive increase in data breaches during 2023, with more records disclosed than in both 2021 and 2022 combined. HIPAA Journal reported that over 11 million medical records were disclosed in 2023, with most being data breaches from supply-chain vendor vulnerabilities and ransomware.

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Cost-Effective Protection: The Advantages of MSSPs over Traditional Staffing
March 9, 2024

Cost-Effective Protection: The Advantages of MSSPs over Traditional Staffing

Cybersecurity threats are much more sophisticated than they were just a few years ago, and many of today’s cyber-criminals...

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Finding Harmony: Balancing Physician Well-Being and Cybersecurity in Electronic Health Record Systems
March 9, 2024

Finding Harmony: Balancing Physician Well-Being and Cybersecurity in Electronic Health Record Systems

Technology should always help improve workplace performance and productivity, but with all its benefits, adding third-party solutions to your environment increases your cyber-risks.

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IoT/IoMT Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Risks, Impact on Patients, and the Need for Advanced Risk Management
March 9, 2024

IoT/IoMT Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Risks, Impact on Patients, and the Need for Advanced Risk Management

The negative impact on patients after a data breach is more than identity theft and fraud. A recent report released by Cynerio...

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