Category Archives: Healthcare Data Breach

What Is the True Cost of a Health Care Data Breach?

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The health care industry has remained the top data breach target for eleven years in a row. Highly sensitive and personally identifiable information (PII) held by health care systems is an attractive target. After all, it contains all the information used for identity theft. In addition, that data may be stored on less secure networks […]

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What’s New in the 2021 Cost of a Data Breach Report

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Has cybersecurity ever been more important than it is right now? Even in these extraordinary times, with its focus on manufacturing vaccines and getting shots into arms, new research in the Cost of a Data Breach Report shows that the increasing cost of security breaches makes preventing and responding to these threats a critical concern. […]

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Health Care Data: It’s Your Personal ‘National Security’ Information

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If you wanted to put all the pieces of a person’s profile together, health care data would likely be the most important piece of the personally identifiable information (PII) puzzle. It’s powerful. A heartbeat can open a door. This data is the most important type related to a person, the crown jewel of PII data […]

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Health Care Ransomware Strains Have Hospitals in the Crosshairs

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The language of digital attacks shares a lot with the language of disease: ‘viruses’ ‘infect’ computers, and stopping their spread can be like trying to keep down a contagious disease. The two worlds also come together when threat actors attack using health care ransomware. When every minute could change the fate of a patient, preventing […]

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Health Care Cybersecurity: Costly Data Breaches, Ensuring PII Security and Beyond

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As hospitals get smarter, threat actors have more routes inside. IBM’s recent research on the health care industry shows how smart tools, which could be very valuable for today’s medical facilities, also need healing of their own. What should hospital IT security teams look out for? Our overview of the state of cybersecurity in the health […]

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What’s New in the 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report

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In a world of uncertainty and change, it’s a comfort that some things are consistent year after year. Now in its 15th year, the annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, with research by the Ponemon Institute and published by IBM Security, continues to provide a detailed view of the financial impacts security incidents can […]

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Safeguarding Healthcare for the Future With Zero Trust Security

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A Zero Trust security model can help healthcare organizations provision access in a more effective manner by focusing on data, workloads and identity.

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Beyond IT: Assessing the Human Impact of Healthcare Cybersecurity

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Great healthcare cybersecurity goes beyond IT best practices. Assessing the human element is essential to developing and deploying a holistic approach to security.

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Measuring Security Risk in a Medical IoT World

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To reduce cybersecurity risk, silos among internet of things (IoT) technologies and hospital teams should be broken down and impact across four pillars should be weighed.

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The Potential and Perils of the IoT in Healthcare

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The IoT in healthcare is ever-expanding. This growth is bringing new capabilities and opportunities for innovation but also new challenges and security risks.

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