by Jon Moore | Jan 11, 2021 | Blog
Throughout this past fall, international criminal organizations asserted their dominance over the healthcare sector through ransomware. By the end of November, more than a dozen health systems were driven into EHR downtime by ransomware attacks. The pandemic’s...
by Bob Chaput | Jan 5, 2021 | Blog
Over the past 10 years, the healthcare industry’s understanding of cyber risk has evolved through four distinct phases, emphasizing four different aspects of cyber risk. Understanding these four different phases gives context for where healthcare cyber risk...
by Wes Morris | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog
By: Wes Morris, Managing Principal Consultant and Dawn Morgenstern, Senior Principal Consultant This past Thursday, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a statement of intent to publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to modify the HIPAA Privacy...
by Steve Cagle | Nov 30, 2020 | Blog
I read with immense interest the letter[1] that Senator Mark Warner sent to Alan Miller following the ransomware attack on Universal Health Services earlier this fall. As we have seen, cyberattacks are compromising the confidentiality of patient data. They are also...
by Bob Chaput | Nov 20, 2020 | Blog
Healthcare organizations are experiencing a renewed onslaught of cyber attacks since the advent of the coronavirus pandemic. Hospitals and health systems were already targets of cyber attacks before the pandemic emerged. Now, the rapid shift to remote work and...
by Bob Chaput | Oct 30, 2020 | Blog
September was a challenging month for healthcare cybersecurity professionals. According to the HIPAA Journal, there were 95 reported healthcare data breaches with 500 or more records breached that month. That’s nearing twice the highest single-monthly report in the...
