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Healthcare Cyberattacks Lead to Increased Mortality, Lower Patient Care: Ponemon Study

eSecurity Planet

Nearly a quarter of healthcare organizations hit by ransomware attacks experienced an increase in patient mortality, according to a study from Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint released today. Healthcare Cyberattacks Common – And Costly. The financial costs of healthcare cyberattacks are high, the report noted, costing an average of $4.4

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How to protect healthcare and life-sciences data from a cyber attack pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How to protect healthcare and life-sciences data from a cyber attack pandemic. Once slow to adopt new technologies, healthcare-related industries have been rapidly embracing digitalization to enable patient-centric care that is more effective for patients and safer for patients, healthcare professionals and researchers.

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Multi-cloud use by healthcare providers puts patient data at risk

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

healthcare organizations are nearly universal in the adoption of digital transformation technologies (cloud, SaaS applications, big data, IoT, digital payments, containers, and blockchain). This year’s Thales Data Threat Report-Healthcare Edition shows that cloud usage in the U.S. 12 at 2:00 p.m.

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How to Prepare for the Future of Healthcare Digital Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In this blog post, I’ll discuss how healthcare enterprises can not only meet these challenges, but go beyond compliance to best practice to secure their data and their reputations. The Meaningful Use portion of the HITECH Act provided healthcare organizations a carrot to encourage the adoption of electronic health records.

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Exploring Cybersecurity Research Topics for Master’s Degree Studies

CyberSecurity Insiders

IoT Security: Examine the vulnerabilities and challenges associated with securing the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and networks. Explore topics such as authentication protocols, encryption mechanisms, and anomaly detection techniques to enhance the security and privacy of IoT ecosystems.

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ENISA – The need for Incident Response Capabilities in the health sector

Security Affairs

The level of exposure to cyber threats is increasing to the adoption of emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data, and cloud computing. In 2020, the number of reports sent to ENISA about cybersecurity incidents saw an increase of 47% compared to the previous year.

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Analytics Insight Recognizes ‘40 Under 40 Innovators’ in 2021

CyberSecurity Insiders

The list includes entrepreneurs, C-level executives, pioneers, and innovators who are working to streamline artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, machine learning, IoT, AR/VR, big data analytics, NLP, cloud computing, computer vision, intelligent automation, and many others.