Cybersecurity and Privacy

Organizations are applauding the goals of transparency and patient access to medical data.

Healthcare organizations are vulnerable to cyberattacks like phishing scams during IT upgrades and business restructuring. Security awareness is important during any changes, says Ven Auvaa, ArmorPoint's information security director.

A new study has looked into factors influencing doctors, chronically ill patients, and healthy persons to prefer one health application over another.

The investment will accelerate Nexus IT’s U.S. expansion and support acquisitions of culturally aligned MSPs in healthcare and other regulated industries.

Independent accreditation is essential to ensure that health technology and health organizations are compliant with HIPAA, NIST and other standards, says Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, DirectTrust's chief strategy officer.

While quantum computing will pose a threat to healthcare cybersecurity, Philip Bradley, HIMSS digital health strategist, says the INFRAM scale will align with cybersecurity frameworks as they adapt to a new quantum security model.

A strong asset and vulnerability management posture for all organizations – no matter the size – is the key to survival against ransomware attacks, says Katie Moussouris, founder and CEO of Luta Security.

When it comes to threat detection, AI enables security leaders to do more with less because it can process data quickly and identify anomalies, says Etay Maor, chief security strategist at Cato Networks.

While decentralizing healthcare data using blockchain can potentially bolster organizations' cybersecurity, Matt Murren, CEO of True North ITG, cautions that quantum computing may one day crack blockchain's ciphers.

Cybercriminals invest heavily into developing new attacks, so Eric Liederman, CEO of CyberSolutionsMD, recommends that healthcare organizations take a proactive security stance and build strong resilience and recovery plans.