In an in-depth interview, John Halamka, M.D., the former long-time CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, discusses his upcoming move to head Mayo Clinic's global digital health initiative in collaboration with Google - and why privacy and security are so critical to those efforts.
Your best bet to avoiding the potentially exorbitant costs of a vendor hack is to not have one in the first place. A solid vendor risk management program, backed up by technology, policies, and procedures is the best protection. Good review and audit processes can catch any vendor-related problems before they become...
Two vendors serving the healthcare sector have been targeted with breach-related lawsuits. Experts say the incidents at the center of these cases showcase the potential risks posed by vendors.
Getting the proper vendor contracts completed is a top concern for organizations preparing to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act, says Caitlin Fennessy, research director at the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
Federal regulators have slapped Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Hospitals with a $2.2 million HIPAA settlement for improperly reporting a breach and lacking a business associate agreement.
Global security company Prosegur has blamed Ryuk ransomware for a service disruption that started Wednesday, which may have hampered networked alarms. Prosegur isn't revealing much detail but says it is in the process of restoring services.
The healthcare sector has had plenty of significant data breaches so far this year. What can be learned from organizations' experiences? Here are three key lessons.
Virtual Care Provider Inc., which provides cloud hosting and other services to more than 110 healthcare entities, including nursing homes and assisted living facilities, is struggling to bounce back from a ransomware attack in which hackers demanded a $14 million ransom.
Creating effective strategies for securing digital India's assets is challenging. For example, the growth of the cashless economy and increase in digital transactions have made consumers' data more vulnerable to cyberattacks, creating a more urgent need to protect digital assets.
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As the level of cyber-risk faced by organizations of all shapes and sizes grows every year, security ratings services have emerged as important tools to help companies assess the level of risk imposed by their vendors as well as quantify their own security performance.
However, as the market matures and new...
Software integrations, open APIs, and data sharing between different businesses are a staple of the modern digital organization. Unfortunately, as organizations increase their digital footprint across numerous third-party and fourth-party relationships, their risk of downstream data breaches multiplies. These ripple...
Hacker attacks, IT mishaps and vendor errors are among the top causes of the largest health data breaches added to the official federal tally so far this year. Here's an update.
63% of data breaches are caused by third-party, yet most organizations treat their vendors like internal employees when it comes to remote access. Because of this, the average organization spends endless hours and resources investigating incidents and pulling together reports, which only compounds the problem. Data...
Organizations should develop a comprehensive strategy for managing third-party security risks and avoid over-reliance on any one tool, such as vendor security risk assessment, monitoring or ratings services, says analyst Jie Zhang of Gartner.
Currently employed technologies don't provide a complete, real-time view of cybersecurity risk. Instead, they leave security teams with point-in-time assessments that require them to cobble together data from disparate systems to truly understand the organization's security posture.
A new approach is needed that...
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