Tag: healthcare

New Ponemon Study: Cyber Onslaught Threatens to Overwhelm Healthcare Survey

March 1, 2016

ESET and the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, announced results of The State of Cybersecurity in Healthcare Organizations in 2016 (February 2016). According to the study, healthcare organizations average about one cyber attack per month. Almost half (48 percent) of respondents said their organizations have experienced an incident involving the loss … More New Ponemon Study: Cyber Onslaught Threatens to Overwhelm Healthcare Survey

Healthcare data breaches lead more patients to withhold information from doctors

February 19, 2016

As 2015 slides into the cybersecurity history books as “the year of the healthcare breach” I decided to examine one aspect of medical data privacy that is sometimes overlooked: the impact of breaches on patient-doctor information exchange. Specifically, I’m concerned that high profile healthcare-related IT security breaches may lead more people to withhold sensitive information … More Healthcare data breaches lead more patients to withhold information from doctors

Verizon report: Healthcare security shows little sign of improvement

April 16, 2015

Security in the healthcare sector has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent months, and a new report has found that the industry is showing little sign of cleaning up its act. More organizations than ever participated in this year’s Data Breach Investigations Report, which identified a record 80,000 security incidents and 2,100 data breaches. According to information … More Verizon report: Healthcare security shows little sign of improvement

Security in healthcare: Mobile devices

March 23, 2015

  In a time when smartphones seem ubiquitous, the pressure for businesses to allow their employees to access work resources with their personal mobile devices may be overwhelming. This presents a variety of potential problems that are especially troubling in the shadow of the Anthem data breach. What can healthcare IT and Security staff do … More Security in healthcare: Mobile devices

Healthcare businesses in the crosshairs

March 19, 2015

Medical and healthcare data breaches on the rise – 27.5% increase, medical records fetch good coin on the black market. In light of the recent Premera and Anthem breaches, a spotlight is now shining on healthcare businesses, regarding their ability to defend patients’ sensitive information. Security wonks have been warning for years that healthcare businesses are … More Healthcare businesses in the crosshairs