A Look at the Cybersecurity War in Healthcare and How Healthcare Organizations Are Responding
Learn how to identify bad actors from instigating cyber attacks and what stakeholders are doing at the regional and national levels to address this crisis.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Partners With Cyversity To Create Diverse Cybersecurity Workforce
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association announced it is partnering with Cyversity, a nonprofit working to create a diverse and inclusive workforce in the cybersecurity field. The two organizations are forming a training and mentorship program available to Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies and Cyversity members.
3 Keys to Better Cybersecurity
As companies review their processes, below are three approaches they can keep top of mind — namely, increasing employee training and utilizing technology as safeguards, making a point to learn and change processes following attacks, and prioritizing vetting partners’ security.
Endpoint security: The medicine required to cure healthcare’s cybersecurity woes
The healthcare industry has been reported as the second most targeted industry from cyberattacks. Following the business sector, healthcare sees the largest number of threats designed to specifically target their data. Why? The answer blends target-rich opportunities, due to the sheer number of internet-connected devices in use, and a significant number of endpoints that remain inadequately secured. This combination […]
Protecting hospitals from evolving cyber threats
Prevention and cyber resiliency—an organization’s ability to bounce back and operate in the event of a cyber attack—have become all the more important as cyber threats have increased during the pandemic.
Faster health data exchange starts with addressing health IT’s control concerns
This outbreak has shown us that we need to be much faster, more nimble and better prepared to confidently share health data across organizations.
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Analysis finds 8,000+ security flaws in pacemakers
Cybersecurity issues on any device are scary enough. A frightening new report from WhiteScope shows security vulnerabilities in pacemaker systems aren't as rare as one might think.
How threatening are cyber-security breaches currently when it comes to medical devices and the IoT?
This infographic illustrates the risks involved, spells out the major areas of concern and shows where medical device companies and providers can step up to prevent more breach scares moving forward.
China was, you know, totally benevolent in Anthem hack
We thought for months that China was behind the hackers who stole records from Anthem, Premera Blue Cross and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. We assumed they just wanted money or diplomatic leverage. Boy, were we wrong.
Make sure your HIT security system meets these 6 criteria to avoid medical identify theft
With the mandate from government across the healthcare industry to start putting all medical records online, more attention is being given to the protection of Personal Health Information (PHI). You can draw obvious conclusions about how personal and sensitive information could be misused if improperly disclosed. Some fear that it might be used to deny […]
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Deloitte report: Device makers and hospitals have a lot of holes to patch in the data network
Remember when you first heard about phishing? And you had to evaluate every e-mail and wonder who it was really from? A list of medical device security risks in a new report from Deloitte Center for Health Solutions reads like a the risks that Web sites and network managers faced in the mid-2000s. Now that […]
White-hat hacker who cracked security code on insulin pump has died
According to Reuters, Barnaby Jack, the director of Embedded Security Research at IOActive, has died in San Francisco. He was to give a talk about the wireless cyber threats surrounding pacemakers and ICDs titled “Implantable Medical Devices: Hacking Humans” at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas next week. From Jack’s summary of the presentation: […]