Risk Management

Troy Ament, field CISO of healthcare/pharma at Fortinet, shares why security must be "fundamentally and foundationally embedded" into a digital transformation, and not just bolted on.

This week's top stories include the House approving a bill that strengthens the Affordable Care Act by making coverage more affordable for the next two years, bad bots bombarding vaccine sign-up sites, and PatientPoint merging with Outcome Health.

CynergisTek CEO Caleb Barlow says that with new ransomware tricks and recent attempts at "double extortion" on the black market, "we've really seen a marked change in adversarial intent."

The formerly two-week manual contact-tracing process was reduced to minutes with new technology.

Opioids, controlled substances, expensive oncology therapeutics and vaccines risk being stolen and sold on the black market, but supply chain visibility and inventory control tools can help safeguard them, says Invistics CEO Tom Knight.

Northwell says it provided documentation to the insurers of hundreds of millions of dollars of covered costs and losses.

Clearwater Compliance founder Bob Chaput, author of "Stop the Cyber Bleeding," offers practical advice on how to turn an enterprise cyber risk management program into a business enabler.

This week's top stories include Google Cloud rolling out a vaccine distribution tool, the federal government sending one million COVID-19 vaccine doses directly to 6,500 pharmacies, and a security breach at Montefiore Medical Center.

Christophe Doré, security manager at Capsule Technologies, says hackers are using phishing attacks to take advantage of employees working from home to gain user names and passwords.

This week's top stories include Flo Health settling with the FTC over data sharing allegations, the feds telling states not to hold the COVID-19 vaccine in reserve and health IT heavy hitters creating the Vaccine Credential Initiative.