Equifax's CIO and chief security officer will leave the company following a cybersecurity incident that affected 143 million consumers, the company announced Sept. 15.
Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems
Healthcare cybersecurity news covering breaches, ransomware and the hospital cyberattacks that shut down clinical operations. Becker's tracks how health systems detect, respond and spend to prevent the next one.
Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center began notifying 1,969 patients Sept. 11 after it discovered an employee accessed protected health information without authorization, a spokesperson told Becker's Hospital Review.
Employees are more likely to benefit from cybersecurity trainings with rewards, rather than those that reprimand them, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The Federal CIO Council will hold the first-ever governmentwide IT and cybersecurity recruiting event in Silver Spring, Md., this November in hopes to "fill critical skills gaps," reports The Hill.
The Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation into the recent data breach at credit reporting agency Equifax, which compromised the data of nearly 143 million people, reports The Washington Post.
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People are willing to give up a number of luxuries, including their eyesight, to ensure personal data is never leaked, according to a recent Modis survey.
Toronto-based North York General Hospital selected cybersecurity providers Thales and Identos to improve the secure exchange of information between physicians, staff and patients at the facility.
The federal government has ordered all of its agencies to develop plans to wipe software by Moscow, Russia-based Kaspersky Lab from their computer systems, reports The New York Times.
By 2022, the information security sector will be short 1.8 million workers, according to the 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded up to $50 million to the agency's national laboratories to advance research and development of cybersecurity and resilience tools for the country's critical energy infrastructure.