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Cybersecurity Threats Continue to Find Vulnerabilities in Healthcare

Understanding the Factors and Strategy Required to Design a Policy as to Whether You Should Pay or Not Pay a Ransomware Ransom.

DHS/CISA has been tracking attacks against DNS infrastructure. These attacks have increased in frequency over the past 48-hours specifically targeting critical infrastructure sectors.

Is it possible to outpace and outsmart cyberattackers? It depends on your tech…(Hint: take a page from the attackers).

Protecting healthcare organizations with limited resources in a time of increased connectivity and BYOD requires agility, integration, organizational awareness, and innovation.

Are you ready for 2019? You can bet that attackers are! Here are best practices for the emerging threat landscape in the New Year.

A unified threat management (UTM) approach for cybersecurity delivers operational simplicity and lower costs while providing an integrated command post to better manage assets, risk, intelligence, breach detection, analytics and counter measures.​

Safety is a big selling point. Auto manufacturers should make automobile cybersecurity a safety selling point too, as more and more internet-connected features pose increased threats.

Five keys to keeping cyber attackers from finding and exploiting the chink in your cybersecurity armor.

Healthcare organizations, medical device manufacturers, consultancies, and related entities can participate in and benefit from new FDA ISAO partnership with Sensato

While it’s touted as “secure,” the blockchain has some cybersecurity weak links. Organizations looking to move business to the blockchain should keep these “6 weak links” in mind.

Honeypots offer fast breach detection, forensics, and sweet, sweet counter measures. That’s why they’re the one thing cyber attackers fear and CISOs should be sure to include in the cybersecurity mix.

Consumer healthcare apps like Apple EHR, MyTeleMed, Kareo, etc, have the American Hospital Association worried. Six points of protection help safeguard critical systems and data from cyberattacks on mobile healthcare apps.

Russia has compromised hundreds of U.S. companies in the critical infrastructure sector, including electric, nuclear, aviation, manufacturing, government, and healthcare. Sensato CEO discusses the attack and how organizations can protect themselves.

Like viruses that mutate and evolve to evade inoculation criminals constantly find ways to exploit AI and machine learning. AI deployment by cybersecurity experts will be essential for protecting healthcare organizations.

SamSam ransomware has already extracted $1 million in ransom from select targets in 2018. This unique attacker relies on known vulnerabilities, making all cybersecurity practices imperative for healthcare organizations. 

Authentication can be done three ways. It can be something you know, like a password. It can be something you have, like a keycard. Or it can be something that you are. That’s where biometrics comes in.

Each healthcare organization is responsible for protecting itself and its patients, regardless of what's happening at the federal or state level. An effective cybersecurity solution will protect patient lives from security shortcomings.

GDPR is meant to strengthen security and privacy protection for individuals. While it shares many principles from its predecessors, it's by no means a minor adaptation consisting of 11 chapters, 99 articles, and 187 recitals.

Risk assessment in the healthcare industry is imperative. Every health system is at risk, but a comprehensive cybersecurity solution can help to detect potential risks in your healthcare organization, and across the industry.

After spending a considerable amount of time researching these and other challenges common to ineffective cybersecurity incident response programs, we identified components that are required for effective Incident Response Plan (IRP).

This attack has gained a good amount of momentum in the past weeks. Given the tactics employed by the attackers we believe they are performing advanced staging for additional attacks and compromise.

You don’t have to be the actual target. Yet you could still suffer the catastrophic damage of a cyber-munition attack.

Ideally, every employee in a healthcare organization should be a human firewall.

Albert Einstein was supposedly once asked: If he had only one hour to save the world, how would he spend it? According to the legend, Einstein said he would take 55 minutes to define the problem and 5 minutes to solve it.

Segmenting may seem like an inefficient way to defend against cyberattack. Instead, it's a critical piece to creating a safer, more reliable defense against cyberattack.

“Everything that makes healthcare more efficient, every access point, new device, or algorithm, for every positive there’s a negative: risk and vulnerability.”

The moment a computer is invented that is fast enough to break current cryptography, we, as cybersecurity professionals will have a whole new reality to deal with. Guess what? Quantum computing is here.

Over the course of a year long investigation, we interviewed CIO, CISO, managers, security analysts, security engineers and compliance officers. Find out what we learned.

Facing the audacity of evil: when it comes to information technology and medical device security for healthcare organizations, believing your perceptions—or your rationalizations—can be dangerous.

Here’s a scary thought: There is no HIPAA-type (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) regulation designed to save a human life from a medical device cyberattack.

As someone who may be responsible for protecting a network, facilities or people, the evolution of cyberweapons and your rights to defend yourself will become a rather critical aspect of your strategies in the coming years.

I am often asked, "what is the biggest challenge faced by a CIO or CISO trying to secure their environment?" My answer is always "they are good people."

Sensato's North Korea Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing examines the potential risks that North Korea possibly posses to U.S based critical infrastructure organizations.

When we started back in 2013, we had a simple vision—to continually innovate, to be different, to challenge the status quo, to point out that the emperor has no clothes.