As news of the WannaCry ransomware attack continues to escalate, we’d like to ask you to pause for a moment and think beyond securing your perimeter. Consider that there is, or will be, an impact to your systems and network; you may have avoided WannaCry and its variants, but one (or more) will get through in the future, and you WILL BE IMPACTED.
Healthcare organizations are under constant attack from cyber threats. In the past two years, 90 percent of organizations experienced data breaches, with more than 100 million patient records impacted. Many of these attacks—up to 63 percent—were the result of weak or stolen credentials.
On Friday, June 2nd, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published The Report on Improving Cybersecurity in the Health Care Industry. The report is authored by the HHS Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force – a team comprised of top IT security and technology experts in both the public and private sectors, including Imprivata’s own David Ting.