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The Growing Importance of Cybersecurity in California’s Healthcare Industry

Cytelligence

The healthcare industry has witnessed a rapid digital transformation, with hospitals, clinics, and medical practices relying heavily on technology to store and manage patient data, streamline operations, and improve patient care. Patient records, insurance information, and intellectual property are just a few examples.

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Healthcare Organizations Need to Adapt Their Data Protection Policies to the New Threat Environment

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Healthcare Organizations Need to Adapt Their Data Protection Policies to the New Threat Environment. Healthcare providers are at the epicenter of the fight against coronavirus. While the pandemic accelerated their digital transformation initiatives, it also expanded their threat surface and opened up opportunities for cybercriminals.

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Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

But the energy sector also underpins our emergency and response systems, our hospitals and healthcare, our schools, our businesses, and virtually everything we do as a society. Unfortunately, the energy sector is of great interest to cyber attackers today. electrical grid is effectively attacked. The Rising Threat.

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Why Will CyberSecurity Become the Least of your Concern?

Security Boulevard

Artificial intelligence has become consumed in every facet of our lives, including autonomous cars, healthcare, content creation, and cybersecurity defense. Does this create a new security attack surface for my organization? yet have data that these bad actors find desirable. With Blockchain networks and Web 3.0

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Signed, Secured, Delivered: Authenticating Digital Agreements in the Time of Web3

CyberSecurity Insiders

This is especially alarming for industries that conduct high-value transactions online, such as banking, healthcare, government, etc., The digitization of high-value transactions lends many benefits to an organization, but it also poses quite a few risks if its associated cyber threats remain ignored.

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Section 889: the US Regulation that extends far beyond the US

IT Security Guru

With the world constantly developing and undergoing digital transformation, the devices we all rely on for both our personal and work lives are increasingly manufactured in countries considered potentially or even actively hostile toward our national interests. Healthcare contractors, payors or providers paid by the U.S.

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After Springhill: Assessing the Impact of Ransomware Lawsuits

eSecurity Planet

.” And when Teiranni Kidd checked into Springhill to give birth one week after the attack, the complaint alleges, she “was not told that the hospital’s computer systems had been hacked, that they were not operating as needed, and that patient safety was implicated and could be comprised.” Ransomware Liability.