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Healthcare – Patient or Perpetrator? – The Cybercriminals Within

Security Affairs

The healthcare industry might be known for the work it does to treat patients. With copious amounts of data collected by healthcare facilities, cybercriminals often target such entities. Moreover, the healthcare industry collects unique data, known as Protected Health Information (PHI), which is extremely valuable.

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Protecting Medical Data Against a Cyber-Attack Pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Besides dealing with the public health pandemic, healthcare providers must deal with another pandemic: cyber-attacks. Hospitals and healthcare organizations were an attractive target even before the coronavirus pandemic. Expanding the use of telemedicine, transforming healthcare access for remote patients.

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Protecting Medical Data Against a Cyber-Attack Pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Besides dealing with the public health pandemic, healthcare providers must deal with another pandemic: cyber-attacks. Hospitals and healthcare organizations were an attractive target even before the coronavirus pandemic. Expanding the use of telemedicine, transforming healthcare access for remote patients.

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Five key trends that will shape digital identity and security in 2022

CyberSecurity Insiders

As we ring in the new year, I asked my colleagues from around the Digital Identity & Security business to share their thoughts about the technologies that will shape 2022. . Medical IoT will continue to be of the utmost importance . Increased adoption of identity wallets for citizens .

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Cybersecurity in 2022, Predictions for digital ecosystem facing more challenges and sophisticated threats

CyberSecurity Insiders

through September of 2021 has already surpassed the total number of compromises in 2020 by 17%, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).” For hackers’ soft targets for ransomware extortion are plentiful, especially in the healthcare, financial, and manufacturing industries. OT/IT and IoT convergence.

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Top 5 Industries Most Vulnerable to Data Breaches in 2023

Security Boulevard

Data breaches caused by weak security measures and procedures result in severe monetary losses, erosion of clients’ trust, and irreversible reputation damage to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and retail industries, as well as government and public sector entities.

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Executive Spotlight: Q&A with Chief Information Officer, Scott Howitt

McAfee

I also believe blockchain will likely be a good solution for IoT identity and machine learning will take over for the SEIM. Understanding user and device behavior and being able to spot anomalies is the future. Information security leaders need to stop having a negative reaction to new technology and instead embrace it.

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