Although many organizations expect data breaches to damage their reputation, the negative effect on a company's financial performance is short-lived, according to a Comparitech study.
Cybersecurity
Roughly 91 of the 229 data breaches submitted to HHS' Office for Civil Rights' breach portal this year are listed as hacking or IT incidents, and another 91 are listed as unauthorized access or disclosure breaches.
Jigar Kadakia, chief information security and privacy officer at Boston-based Partners HealthCare, discusses the impact that a breach in cybersecurity can have on the healthcare ecosystem.
The Department of Justice on Sept. 6 said it was charging a North Korean programmer in the 2017 "WannaCry" ransomware attack and two other high-profile hacks dating as far back as 2014, The Hill reports.
Sheryl Rose, chief information security officer and senior vice president at Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initiatives, discusses the evolution of the CISO role and how hospital systems can implement the best practices for data protection.
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Reliable Respiratory in Norwood, Mass., discovered unusual activity on an employee's email account in July, which may have allowed hackers to access an undisclosed number of patients' protected health information.
A new strain of ransomware, dubbed "Barack Obama's Everlasting Blue Blackmail Virus," uses a photograph of former President Barack Obama as part of its extortion scam, Bleeping Computer reports.
Dan Costantino, chief information security officer at Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania Health System, discusses the idea of implementing data protection as a team effort instead of an individual role.
Chief information security officers from six leading hospitals and health systems in the U.S. have teamed up to form the Provider Third Party Risk Management Council.
Messages that contain spam and malware make up 13 percent of emails, according to a Mimecast report.