Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware, a provider of cloud infrastructure and healthcare IT services, is collaborating with Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel Health and Life Sciences to enhance cybersecurity efforts in the healthcare industry.
VMware joined Intel's Healthcare Security Readiness Program, which will allow VMware to offer healthcare organizations a free and confidential meeting with an assessor for technical security and safeguards. The assessor uses a healthcare security maturity model that has been used by more than 60 healthcare organizations to create a baseline for security measurement.
The participating organizations will receive a report summary of the findings, which will include its maturity level, gaps in their security and a multi-year plan to improve its infrastructure and security preparedness.
Threats to cybersecurity are increasing in the United States. In January 2017 alone, there were 31 healthcare data breach incidents, averaging one breach for each day of the month, according to the Protenus Breach Barometer.
"With the free Healthcare Security Readiness Program, our goal is to empower our customers with the information they need to tighten their security controls and identify potential security blind spots in a way that is neither time nor cost intensive," said Frank Nydam, vice president of healthcare at VMware.