The many kinds of OT and IoT gear that are not regulated medical devices but are critical to run hospitals and other care facilities present a variety of cybersecurity and patient safety concerns, said Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medicine.
The Department of Defense has announced its inaugural Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Craig Martell is stepping down from his role after establishing the office as a small but influential team within the department over the last two years.
In the aftermath of a ransomware attack several years ago, Hackensack Meridian Health embarked on transforming its cybersecurity program with the support of top leadership and increased funding and staff and by implementing critical security tools and best practices, said CISO Mark Johnson.
Healthcare organizations and makers of medical devices need to think about how to safeguard their critical medical gear against future cyberthreats, including the looming dangers posed by quantum computing, said Mike Nelson, global vice president of digital trust at security firm DigiCert.
Machines are gradually taking on activities of human customers such as research, negotiations and user reviews. The rise of the AI customers marks a shift from machines as passive tools to active participants in economic transactions, said Donald Scheibenreif, vice president and analyst at Gartner.
The U.S. healthcare sector needs to closely watch government regulatory and legislative developments involving artificial intelligence, including the European Union AI Act, said Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
It's critical for hospitals and other firms to not only prepare for how they will respond to a cyberattack but also to consider the regional impact if a neighboring provider of services needed in the community is disrupted by a serious cyber incident, said Margie Zuk of Mitre.
Healthcare sector organizations need to focus their attention on meeting the "voluntary" essential and enhanced cybersecurity performance goals set out by federal regulators before they become potential mandates, said Kate Pierce, virtual information security officer at Fortified Heath Security.
Federal regulators have informed UnitedHealth Group that they have launched a full-fledged investigation into a potential massive compromise of protected health information stemming from the Change Healthcare cyberattack. A potential PHI breach could affect tens of millions of individuals.
Experts told ISMG a final version of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's self-attestation form for federal software providers takes bold steps to ensure new technologies are made with "secure by design" principles but lacks critical components that should come in future versions.
The vast healthcare ecosystem disruption caused by the recent attack on Change Healthcare, which affected more than 100 of the company's IT products and services, underscores the concentrated cyber risk when a major vendor suffers a serious cyber incident, said Keith Fricke, partner at tw-Security.
First-party fraud hits banks from many different places - credit card fraud claims, bust-out schemes, lending fraud and synthetic identity fraud. The diversity of scams poses major challenges in spotting fraudulent activity, said Frank McKenna, chief strategist and co-founder of Point Predictive.
The healthcare sector needs a 911-style cyber civil defense system that can help all segments of the industry, including under-resourced groups, to more rapidly and effectively respond to cyberattacks and related incidents, said Erik Decker, CISO of Intermountain Health and a federal cyber adviser.
The Department of Health and Human Services is working on grant programs and other financial programs to help under-resourced healthcare organizations deal with the cybersecurity challenges they're facing, said La Monte Yarborough, CISO and acting deputy CIO at HHS.
The Biden administration doesn't propose huge leaps in cybersecurity funding in an annual spending blueprint unveiled Monday afternoon. U.S. federal civilian cybersecurity spending would amount to $13 billion, while the military would spend $14.5 billion.
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