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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Passwords are your first and most basic form of threat defense. They might not be the only way to protect data but are one important factor in layered cybersecurity. Passwords are also a primary target for an attacker...

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Mitigating HIPAA Violations from Third-Party Vendors
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Mitigating HIPAA Violations from Third-Party Vendors

Most healthcare providers know that phishing, ransomware, social engineering, and malware are risks to patient data, but what they don’t know is that a majority of these threats begin with third-party vendor vulnerabilities.

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Mitigating the Impact of Third-Party Data Breaches: A Guide to Incident Response and Risk Management
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Mitigating the Impact of Third-Party Data Breaches: A Guide to Incident Response and Risk Management

Ever since the SolarWinds hack in 2020, more businesses are aware of the risks third parties bring into their own enterprise environment.

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Protect Your Data, Recognize and Report Phishing
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Protect Your Data, Recognize and Report Phishing

A recent US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) survey showed that eight out of ten organizations reported at least one person within their business fell victim to a phishing attack. CISA performed its own penetration test on organizations willing to be tested, and the results confirmed that most businesses are vulnerable to cyber-criminals using social engineering and phishing methods.

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Safeguarding Healthcare Data: The Vital Role of Third-Party Risk Management
March 9, 2024

Safeguarding Healthcare Data: The Vital Role of Third-Party Risk Management

Recently, it seems like hospitals and healthcare providers suffer from a data breach every month, many of them due to third-party vendor vulnerabilities. The healthcare industry suffered from another data breach on March 14 when a third-party vendor responsible for managed care administration announced that a hacker stole more than 4.2 million patient records, the biggest breach of 2023 at that time.

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Ransomware Blackmail: The Medibank Data Breach and Lessons on Third-Party Vendor Risk
March 9, 2024

Ransomware Blackmail: The Medibank Data Breach and Lessons on Third-Party Vendor Risk

In October 2022, Medibank administrators became aware of suspicious activity on the corporate network environment. Investigations took place, and the initial investigation found that the suspicious traffic was from an external threat including ransomware.

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Strengthening Your Cybersecurity: A Surefire Way to Save on Cyber Insurance Premiums
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Strengthening Your Cybersecurity: A Surefire Way to Save on Cyber Insurance Premiums

If you have ever shopped for cybersecurity insurance, you know that insurance costs depend on a number of factors including the size of your business, number of employees, your industry, and the type of data stored. Another perhaps more significant factor is your current cybersecurity posture, an increasingly objective measure of your susceptibility to malware, phishing, social engineering, or service interruption.

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Strengthening Cybersecurity in Small to Mid-Sized Healthcare Companies: Essential Steps to Protect Patient Data
March 9, 2024

Strengthening Cybersecurity in Small to Mid-Sized Healthcare Companies: Essential Steps to Protect Patient Data

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, cyber criminals unleash 4,000 ransomware attacks daily. Many of these threats target healthcare organizations where they have few staff to mitigate, contain, eradicate and investigate attacks. Ransomware is the most common method by which these devastating cyber attacks are carried out, leaving healthcare organizations with few options, often leading to negative impacts on productivity and revenue.

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The Power of Cyber Threat Intelligence in Today's Security Landscape
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The Power of Cyber Threat Intelligence in Today's Security Landscape

Your company may have best-of-breed security solutions by today’s standard, but it may not necessarily be enough to stop the thousands of new and emerging threats introduced every day. To maintain a strong security posture in today’s threat landscape, you need a way to proactively detect new threats so that you can create strategies to stop them.

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