How ExpertOps Can Help You Address the Infosec Skills Gap

Are you struggling to hire skilled digital security talent in 2020? If so, you’re not alone. According to a Tripwire study on the infosec skills gap, 82% of security experts said that their teams were understaffed; nearly the same proportion (83%… Continue reading How ExpertOps Can Help You Address the Infosec Skills Gap

HITRUST and Tripwire Partner to Help Healthcare Organizations Mature their Cybersecurity Practices

Cyberattacks in the healthcare industry show no signs of abating. In 2018, 15 million healthcare records were breached. Alarmingly, in the first half of 2019 alone, 32 million healthcare records were compromised as a result of multiple incidents includ… Continue reading HITRUST and Tripwire Partner to Help Healthcare Organizations Mature their Cybersecurity Practices

Cyber Threats to Medical Imaging Systems and How to Address Them

Healthcare continues to see staggering growth in breaches to patient health information. In the first half of 2019 alone, 32 million health records were breached, compared to 15 million records in the entire year of 2018. However, this trend of growing… Continue reading Cyber Threats to Medical Imaging Systems and How to Address Them

Best Practices for IT Security Teams in the Age of Cloud

About a decade ago, organizations were hesitant to adopt cloud solutions, with many citing security concerns. Fast forward to 2019, and 81% of organizations have a multi-cloud strategy, spurred on by the desire for increased flexibility, usage-based sp… Continue reading Best Practices for IT Security Teams in the Age of Cloud

Managed Vulnerability Management? Yes, You Read That Right

The importance of a mature vulnerability management program can’t be overstated. File integrity monitoring (FIM) and security configuration management (SCM) might be the bedrock of a strong cybersecurity program, but they can only go so far. Scan… Continue reading Managed Vulnerability Management? Yes, You Read That Right

The Verizon PHIDBR: A Wake-Up Call for Healthcare Organizations

The healthcare industry continues to be challenged with securing patient health information. According to the Verizon Protected Health Information Data Breach Report (PHIDBR), 58 percent of all security incidents involved insiders, ransomware accounts … Continue reading The Verizon PHIDBR: A Wake-Up Call for Healthcare Organizations

Making Continuous HIPAA Compliance Easy with ExpertOps

Healthcare organizations continue to face relentless cyberattacks owing to the immense value placed on patient health information on the dark web. Patient records have almost everything the attacker needs to carry out sophisticated insurance fraud sche… Continue reading Making Continuous HIPAA Compliance Easy with ExpertOps

Electronic Health Records Under Attack: How to Protect and Secure These Critical Assets

If breaches to electronic health record systems continue at their current pace, each and every American can expect their private medical data to be compromised at least once by 2024. Once adversaries obtain a patient’s health information (PHI), t… Continue reading Electronic Health Records Under Attack: How to Protect and Secure These Critical Assets

3 Key Challenges To Being PCI 3.2 Compliant and How To Resolve Them

The latest revision to PCI DSS, PCI 3.2, provides specific security guidance on the handling, processing, transmitting and storing of credit card data. PCI 3.2 presents an opportunity for retail, healthcare, finance and hospitality organizations to min… Continue reading 3 Key Challenges To Being PCI 3.2 Compliant and How To Resolve Them

Ransomware – A Reminder for Healthcare Providers to Lock Down Their Environments

Ransomware attacks against healthcare providers aren’t new. In 2017, two crypto-malware infections affecting medical organizations made The State of Security’s top list of ransomware attacks for the year. The first involved an unknown strai… Continue reading Ransomware – A Reminder for Healthcare Providers to Lock Down Their Environments