Cybersecurity and Privacy

Hackers may have entered through one of its third-party vendors.

Lee Kim, senior principal, cybersecurity and privacy at HIMSS, discusses the new NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, which offers specific implementation examples and granular guidance to help organizations manage and reduce cybersecurity risk.

Carolyn Metnick, partner and Healthcare and Privacy & Cybersecurity team member at Sheppard Mullin, recommends that healthcare organizations follow basics such as following HIPAA security rule compliance and doing a security risk analysis.  

The company notified the SEC of a data breach after discovering an unauthorized party stole consumers' sensitive information, including patient health data.

The company, which tailors cybersecurity offerings to health systems and providers, also appointed its first chief executive officer, Geyer Jones.

Both small and large organizations have risk challenges and threat-monitoring gaps, but executives are increasingly recognizing that cybersecurity in healthcare is a strategic imperative central to patient safety, says Steve Cagle, CEO of Clearwater.  

Dr. Eric Liederman, CEO of CyberSolutionsMD, says technology providers should be required to use AI tools to find vulnerabilities in their products before they go to market.  

Tony Black of Kyndryl discusses how companies can take proactive measures to avoid operations disruption during adverse digital events.  

Richard Staynings, chief security strategist at Cylera, talks about a study exposing how AI in smart medical devices could be vulnerable to cyberattack, as well as how microsegmentation and firewall controls can help prevent such attacks.

Senior director of the security operations center at Huntress, Max Rogers, speaks on achieving successful cybersecurity outcomes through effective monitoring.