Cybersecurity

A security risk assessment tool for hospitals and other HIPAA-covered entities boasts new usability features, thanks to updates from two HHS agencies.

An average hospital room can house as many as 20 medical devices, and almost all of them will be networked – either wired or wirelessly.

IBM is taking cybersecurity education to the streets with what it calls the first mobile security operations center, the company said Oct. 15.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services is notifying 21,000 individuals about a potential compromise of their personal information after it discovered an authorized third party gained access to two email accounts on two separate occasions, according to KSTP.

Anthem will pay HHS $16 million to settle potential HIPAA violations related to cyberattacks that compromised the health information of nearly 79 million people in 2015, HHS said Oct. 15.

Although healthcare organizations tend to identify breaches more quickly than companies in other industries, they take longer to contain the attack, according to a recent survey sponsored by IBM.

Dave Summitt, chief information security officer and director of cybersecurity operations at Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses the importance of proper risk assessment and security awareness in hospital cybersecurity.

Aetna agreed to pay a $365,000 penalty after the insurance provider inadvertently breached the privacy rights of hundreds of New Jersey residents, the state's Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said Oct. 11.

Here are 10 feature interviews with hospital and healthcare system chief information security officers and cybersecurity experts.

Google parent company Alphabet will permanently shut down all consumer functionalities of its Google+ social network after a bug allowed outside developers to access user data, according to The Wall Street Journal.