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The modern-day healthcare industry faces unique cybersecurity challenges. On the one hand, cutting-edge technologies and increasing digitization have helped elevate healthcare quality, yet they have also threatened the privacy and security of patient data. According to The HIPPA Journal’s...
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The world of healthcare is rapidly changing. Technological advancements expose organizations to cyber risks, including ransomware, malware, breaches, viruses, and vulnerabilities. The combination of poor cybersecurity practices, digital transformation in care delivery, operational touchpoints, and sensitive data storage makes...
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Legacy systems such as mainframes may be considered outdated by today’s standards but they continue to play major roles in many sectors, primarily finance, government, retail, healthcare and insurance. In these industries, they are crucial parts of day-to-day operations,...
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A 2018 national audit of healthcare preparedness observed that only 45 percent of businesses followed the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, a policy framework for cybersecurity guidance for private sector organizations in the United States. No wonder then that the healthcare...
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Medical devices under cyber threat certainly make for some scary headlines. It’s not even an exaggeration when we say that healthcare essentials are the upcoming security nightmares; with hackers on a constant lookout for gaining access to secured systems....
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In this post, we give you an insight into data breach – a point-blank catastrophe that looms over most organizations. What is Data Breach? Data breach occurs when confidential data of an organization is lost or illegally obtained by...
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There has been a surge in cyber attacks in the healthcare industry. Ransomware attacks have increased across all sectors, but healthcare industry is particularly vulnerable to such attacks. Getting locked out of systems while handling critical patient data or operational...