Safeguarding patient data is critical for healthcare organizations. Strong cybersecurity protects patients and avoids regulatory noncompliance. One essential solution to mitigating cyber risk is third-party access control.
Manufacturers rely on vendors to keep operations running, but every connection introduces risk. Here’s how to manage third-party access with greater visibility, control, and confidence.
Walk through any modern manufacturing operation, and you’ll quickly see how much of it depends on external partners. Vendors maintain equipment, update software, monitor systems remotely, and keep supply chains moving. In many cases, they are as essential to production as internal teams.
But every connection that keeps operations running also introduces risk.
New study shows 33% of data breaches in the retail space were due to third-party vendor access vulnerabilities.
Remote access and connecting into customers' networks are often overlooked vectors of risk. As a value-added reseller (VAR), your company alone may provide any or all of these connections to your customers:
This interactive checklist ensures that your security standards and access controls are up to snuff to keep your company safe.
There have been numerous efforts, or at least discussions, to get hospital physicians and staff to better communicate via text messages and away from widely used but somewhat antiquated pagers. But so far, it’s largely been problematic because people would use their own devices, potentially opening themselves and their hospitals up to HIPAA violations.