With the year nearly over, hacking attacks - especially those involving phishing and other email attacks - continue to rack up big victim counts for health data breaches reported to federal regulators in 2018.
A Nov. 27 snapshot of the Department of Health and Human Services' HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website shows 327 major health data breaches impacting nearly 9.8 million individuals have been added to the tally so far in 2018.
Marti Arvin's comments are featured in this article.
Thirty-six cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals were announced in May 2022.
Ben Denkers, CIO of CynergisTek discusses steps healthcare cybersecurity leaders can follow these four steps to improve their security posture in the face of cyberattacks.
Thomas Graham, Chief Information Security Officer for CynergisTek discusses healthcare workers and the current climate.
New guidance from the Cloud Security Alliance aims to support delivery organizations with assessing and managing cybersecurity risks to the healthcare supply chain.
Dave Bailey, Vice President of Security Services discusses developing and maintaining solid security practices.
In this episode, we discuss with Mac areas where our industry needs to do a better job of testing our controls and environment instead of completely trusting them to do what we think.
Mac McMillan discusses the speed in which cyber security is increasing.
Andrew Mahler discusses the existing challenges with HIPAA compliance and current state regulations will only compound further as regulating.
Mac McMillan discusses the FDA's new guidance and the progress we have made over the last decade in talking about and raising issues with medical device security.
Mac McMillan shared his perspectives on the potential for the Russian invasion of Ukraine to indirectly impact IT in the U.S. healthcare system, particularly with regard to supply chain.
Mac McMillan, CEO of CynergisTek discusses the possibility of cyberattacks beginning and how no one can tell for sure how wide the fallout could be.
Mac McMillan, CEO of CynergisTek discusses the possibility of cyberattacks beginning and how no one can tell for sure how wide the fallout might be.
KLAS named Medigate, Ordr, and Armis as top healthcare IoT security vendors, all of which can help organizations manage connected device security risks.
Andrew Mahler discusses the growing number of challenges healthcare organizations related to protecting the privacy of data and ensuring certain rights of patients, members, and consumers.
Andrew Mahler, Director of Privacy, Compliance and Managed Services at CynergisTek discusses privacy frameworks and the increased regulatory enforcement within the healthcare sector.
HIT Consultant reached out to six healthcare executives, including MAc McMillan CEO of CynergisTek, for their trends and predictions on healthcare cybersecurity and ransomware to watch in 2022.
Mac McMillan discusses healthcare providers and their need to devote more resources to preventing cybersecurity attacks.
Benjamin Denkers, CIO Privacy and Security discusses ransomware and how compromising a larger healthcare organization can provide attackers with more leverage.
Mac McMillan, CEO of CynergisTek discusses the intensifying set of cybersecurity threats facing patient care organizations nationwide.
Mac McMillan, CEO of CynergisTek discusses cybersecurity attacks and breaches of the past few months as pointing up a key lesson for health system leaders.
