After the number of health data leaks hit a new record last year, healthcare providers should be leveraging all the tools available to protect themselves and their patients from malicious criminals.
As the healthcare industry embraces the transformative power of AI, it is crucial for healthcare security leaders to understand the associated data security risks.
Compliance and security go hand in hand: exposure and vulnerability to risks on the security side lead to fines and reputational damage on the compliance side.
As increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks continue to target healthcare’s essential systems - including networks, IoT medical instruments, and mobile devices - the need for advanced security protections continues to grow. Healthcare leaders are beginning to embrace the truth: cybersecurity is now an indispensable part of patient care.
Yet even as this move toward secure connected technologies expands, a favorite target of malicious actors continues to be the healthcare organization’s website - especially if the site is powered by WordPress.
In August, Community Health Systems announced that an external group of hackers attacked its computer network that an external group of hackers attacked its computer network and stole non-medical data of 4.5 million patients – the second-largest HIPAA breach ever reported.