The Need for Increased Investment in Medical Device Security

The FBI in 2014 warned that healthcare systems, including medical devices, were at an increased risk of cyber-attacks due to the unfortunate coupling of poor cybersecurity practices in the healthcare industry with patient health information (PHI) that commands high value on the dark web. This warning has largely been realized. The cost and frequency of […]… Read More

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3 Steps to Ensure Patient Safety by Mitigating Cyber Security Risk

Cyberattacks in the healthcare industry have been on the rise, the latest being the WannaCry attack that affected 20% of NHS facilities in the UK. A study (PDF) by the Ponemon Institute in 2016 revealed that healthcare organizations have experienced approximately one cyberattack every month. Healthcare organizations are a lucrative target because patient information (social […]… Read More

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WannaCry Poses Healthcare Risks in Today’s Interconnected World

Patients turned away. Ambulances diverted. Doctors and nurses locked out of patient files and unable to deliver care. On Friday, 45 National Health Service (NHS) organizations in the UK and Scotland and over 200,000 other victims in 150 countries fell prey to the WannaCry ransomware. The threat spread quickly, infecting vulnerable Microsoft systems that had […]… Read More

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