New regulations, including those coming into effect in the U.S., are pushing many medical device makers to radically reconsider how they approach cybersecurity for their products - including air gapping connections, said Phil Englert of the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center.
It is increasingly important for healthcare entities to carefully examine their cyber and other insurance policies to see what risks are covered in the event of a cyber incident, especially as the threat landscape continues to evolve, said attorney Peter Halprin, a partner at law firm Pasich LLP.
In an ESG research it was found that employees were spending an average of six hours per week doing work-related tasks outside of office hours. This shows that even before the pandemic hit, the lines between office and home life had begun to blur.
As this lead to a disturbance in the enterprise architecture,...
No secret: Public cloud provides the technical catalyst to the healthcare industry’s modernization and the keys to the kingdom in terms of globalization. The resulting access to usable swaths of data is invaluable - and high-risk. ClearDATA's Chris Bowen weighs in on mitigating the risks.
In the digitally-transformed healthcare landscape, PHI is transmitted and stored in the cloud and accessed by legions of privileged users; patients now have unprecedented access to their own data and records, which are coveted by fraudsters on the Dark Web; and regulators are increasingly scrutinizing the privacy and...
What does it take to securely migrate nearly all your systems and data onto the cloud, phase out your own on-premises data center, and build shared cyber risk responsibility with third-parties? That's a journey under way at health insurer Wellmark. The health insurer's vice president and CISO Thien La will describe...
An inside view of what HHS OCR is seeing on the healthcare sector privacy and security landscape, and what the agency has in the works to address those challenges. That includes:
Insights from OCR's latest breach and compliance investigations of covered entities and BAs.
An update on OCR's HIPAA enforcement...
Some of the biggest health data breaches - including headliner Wall of Shame breaches in 2018 - are due to insiders who click on phishing emails, and fall for business email compromise scams. While there is also plenty of record snooping by insiders, healthcare also has its share of malicious bad actors looking to...
Following the HHS OCR presentation, a panel of CISOs and regulatory and legal experts will dig into how major health data breach trends are changing, and why. For instance:
What lessons can be learned from some of the latest breach trends, including the steady surge in reported hacker incidents
Cybercriminals,...
What's the state of healthcare information security, and how are the healthcare sector and government agencies working to address the increasingly complex cyber challenges? Our presenter provides insights into the latest efforts and hot topics, including:
How the sector can implement key cyber recommendations from a...
A panel of experts join keynoter Greg Garcia to dig into some of the most critical recommendations by the Department of Health and Human Services' cyber task force for improving the state of cybersecurity in the healthcare sector. The panel will discuss:
The current state of one or more of the key imperatives, such...
Interconnected medical devices can pose tremendous risk to data security and patient safety. How can healthcare entities keep up with the ever growing list of vulnerabilities involving medical devices, and new emerging threats? A top FDA official provides an update on the state of medical device security, and FDA's...
Breaches and other cyber incidents involving business associates and other vendors can have a devastating impact. What can healthcare sector entities do to reduce and better manage those risks? Our panel of CISOs and other experts will explore:
The growing risks posed by vendors
Challenges involving cloud vendors...
Given current, turbulent conversations around physical and cybersecurity, it's hard to get an exact pulse on the state of the industry and where to start shoring up corporate processes to protect information. But with business and personal safety on the line, it's become increasingly important to be able to identify...
It's no secret that the healthcare industry is increasingly under attack by cybercriminals. And risky end-user behaviors are only exacerbating the threat. Yet, user awareness training is always a challenge for organizations. How do you effectively train users to stop clicking on links or opening attachments? This...
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