Healthcare Providers
Threats to the Healthcare Industry
Budget limitations, phishing attacks, and ransomware continue to threaten the healthcare industry, according to the 2021 HIMSS report The 2021 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey provides insight into the state of healthcare cybersecurity ...
Healthcare Industry: Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities and How to Treat Them
A Portal to Danger With the pandemic in 2020, it’s safe to say that healthcare changed forever. While many hospitals and care facilities had previously been distant to overhaul their telehealth services, ...
The Cyber Trove of the Healthcare Industry
The past twelve months have been a strange time of evolving demands on global healthcare services, as well staggering transformations in the digital sphere. In many hospitals, these two topics overlap, as ...
A Chronic Illness: Why Healthcare Industry Needs an Update
According to the 2020 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey With the continually expanding concerns of cyber-attacks on the healthcare industry, organizations must invest in secure systems. Breaches happen to healthcare organizations of all sizes ...
The Health of Security
After experiencing a massive ransomware attack that caused the near-shutdown of 400 sites, the Universal Health Services (UHS) has become the most recent example to highlight the issue of cybersecurity in health ...
HIPAA & Employee Password Policies
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) describes how organizations must keep protected health information (PHI) secure. So how exactly are employee passwords supposed to be handled in light of HIPAA? ...
Is Your Personal Healthcare Data in Danger?
The news that Google is amassing huge amounts of patient health data to create a unified platform where healthcare providers can search patients’ individual records has been met with mixed responses. On ...
HITRUST & PASSWORDS: 7 Important Password Policies for HITRUST
Our recommended healthcare password policies that complement and support HITRUST. Since its founding in 2007, HITRUST (Health Information Trust Alliance) champions programs that safeguard sensitive information and manage information risk for global ...
Employee Password Security for Healthcare Providers
Employee password security is a significant issue for healthcare providers. How can hospitals and other healthcare providers tackle password security concerns? The healthcare industry sector is increasingly the target of cybercriminals. As ...
