Privacy & Security

Mike Restuccia says the WannaCry, Petya and ransomware attacks demand more collaboration between healthcare leaders and government agencies, immediately. 

Healthcare security experts argue that hospitals must ensure high availability of medical devices and IT systems with practices that resemble preventing and treating disease. Because ransomware is a symptom rather than the problem. 

Adnan Hamid, Assistant CIO at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, discusses the organization's areas of focus for health IT in 2017 including cybersecurity, disaster recovery, interoperability and more.

There is only one group responsible for the attack but the ransomware scare raised new areas of concern hospitals should know about. 

Jamie Lam, data security compliance manager for the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine offers tips for managing "shadow IT" as tech-savvy employees find their own ways to work effectively.

Matt Trevors, a senior member of the technical staff with the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, offers help for meeting the HIPAA Security Rule.

Kevin Fu, associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, sees historic parallels with our current cybersecurity moment.

Sharon Klein, partner in the Health Sciences Department of Pepper Hamilton, offers tips for audit preparedness, business associate agreements, cyber insurance and more.

Kim Jones, director of the Cybersecurity Education Consortium at Arizona State University discusses the keys to "transformational security.

M.K. Palmore, FBI assistant special agent in charge of San Francisco's Cyber Branch, also describes a fast-evolving threat landscape, explains cyber criminals' focus on ROI and discusses the emerging security trends that concern him the most.