Privacy & Security
An alarming percentage of organizations don’t encrypt sensitive data in public cloud databases and too many have resources exposed to the internet.
Organizations can take these practical approaches to ramping up talent recruiting, hiring and retention practices specifically for infosec pros.
New products and services will incorporate predictive and prescriptive analytics and machine learning to augment infosec employees and resources, Gartner finds.
A security flaw in the Medicaid insurer’s patient portal could have allowed anyone to access patient medical claims data with a simple change to the URL.
Lack of encryption and authentication, simple bugs in the code and poor design can put patient lives at risk.
Tech-savvy hospitals like Mayo, Kaiser and Christiana are always testing, recognizing cybersecurity threats could get scarier, and aiming to change mindsets to focus on infosec as a patient safety issue.
Some security leaders are increasing their response effectiveness through automating security tasks, the survey finds.
There is only one group responsible for the attack but the ransomware scare raised new areas of concern hospitals should know about.
Five Queensland Health hospitals were forced back to pencil and paper after the IT failure, and the system will likely remain sluggish for at least a week.
A post-WannaCry survey shows that U.S. consumers are not very forgiving when it comes to organizations not able to protect their medical information.