In February, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its updated Cybersecurity Framework (CSF 2.0), which included a newly added Govern function, as well as target profiles to help companies better evaluate and improve their cybersecurity strategies.
The agency says threat actors are targeting organizations’ IT help desks with phone calls from a local area code claiming to be revenue cycle or administrator employees. After gaining access, they divert legitimate payments.
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The outage shows why health systems need to plan for inevitable cyberattacks, evaluating risks to their operations and financials and putting backups in place, experts say.
Authors Thomas Bunger, Information Security Consultant and Fronz Batot, Information Security Consultant In today's digital healthcare landscape, the industry’s complex technology infrastructure and reliance on connected devices constantly risk sensitive patient...
Despite the explosion in ransomware hacks like the one against Change Healthcare, regulation is spotty and few new safeguards have been proposed to protect patient data, vulnerable hospitals and medical groups.
In January of this year, as a follow on to its cybersecurity strategy concept paper published in December, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) introduced Health and Public Health Sector (HPH) Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPG).
In this episode of Clear Perspective, experts examine the intersection of privacy and cybersecurity in healthcare. Steve Akers, CISO at Clearwater, and Andrew Mahler, VP of Privacy and Compliance at Clearwater, discuss the evolution of security information and event...