Risk Management

Cybersecurity Collaborative Executive Director Parham Eftekhari shares how intelligence sharing and collaborative best practices can help with risk mitigation as pandemic-era cyberattacks increase.

There is new momentum around finding more effective means of patient identity and matching, and Verato CEO Mark LaRow says the company's referential matching technology can help.

This week's top stories include a Universal Health Services cyberattack forcing the shutdown of user access to IT applications and Anthem reaching a $39.5 million settlement in a 2015 attack.

With criminals taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis, security experts show how health systems can respond to a cyber crisis at the same time.  

This week's top stories include ex-CEO Cyrus Massoumi claiming his former Zocdoc colleagues coordinated a plan to replace him, a large uptick in targeted attacks against telehealth systems, and a NorthShore University HealthSystem data breach.

Plaintiffs include three RCH employees who contracted COVID-19 and one individual whose mother died after contracting the virus, lawsuit says.

The strategy that more than 70% of hospitals and health systems are turning to is embracing telehealth and other digital approaches.

This week's top stories include hospitals scrambling to comply with the requirement to submit data to HHS, while the U.S. government is partnering with Pfizer on a potential COVID-19 vaccine.

The plans for July-December were also due to the CDC today, which will incorporate feedback on its previous testing plan.

Organizations must line up their defenses the same way that they're being attacked, says Ryan Kalember, executive vice president of cybersecurity strategy at Proofpoint.