Privacy & Security
Apple, IBM, Mozilla and Apache all have fixes out, and not installing them leaves open doors for hackers to walk right through.
Infosec teams need to know about EHRs, timing eccentricity and other challenges of detecting inappropriate access.
Hospitals and payers voted on their favorite innovators - athenahealth, Salesforce, M*Modal and more - based on client experience metrics.
In the second quarter of 2017, account hijacking led disclosed attack vectors, followed by DDoS, leaks, targeted attacks, malware and SQL injections.
Of medical residents polled, all of them had shared authorized credentials at one time or another.
Partners say they will prevent misidentification by cleaning up patient data and eliminating the creation of duplicate and overlaid medical records.
Private emails and plans from some of the accounting firm’s blue-chip clients were exposed after hackers got into the network by getting into an admin account without complex authentication.
The same strategies the safeguard digital data can protect items like medical devices, hard drives and paper records.
Having huge pools of information isn’t enough if you don’t have the analytics tools and skills to make it count.
Educating users is critical, they are often the weakest links, but don’t exclusively focus there.