By Zac Amos – As the healthcare industry becomes increasingly reliant on digital databases and communication, the threat of cybersecurity attacks grows. Patient portals are a particularly popular target for attackers because of the sensitive information they contain. To protect patient information, providers must know how to prevent credential stuffing attacks.
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By Russ Smith – Healthcare’s digital transformation has made information the currency of care. Every shared record or connected system depends on data that can be trusted. As organizations become more interoperable and integrate artificial intelligence into daily workflows, protecting that trust is now essential to reliable care delivery.
In honor of Cyber Security Awareness Month, we take a look at Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), a global organization dedicated to advancing women’s participation and success in the cybersecurity field and all it has to offer.
By Usman Choudhary – Email is the connective tissue of modern healthcare. From appointment confirmations to lab reports, care coordination notes to claims documentation, it is woven into nearly every clinical and administrative workflow.
By Zac Amos – Hospitals run on email, shared portals and ticket queues. Attackers now use generative artificial intelligence to send convincing messages that mimic colleagues, patients, payers or IT to push rushed logins. Language errors used to give such scams away, but AI reduces those tells and scales personalization across thousands of targets.
By Devin Partida – Patient messaging is an essential component of coordinating care. Doctors want fast channels to answer questions and share instructions, while patients want the same simplicity and convenience they experience with the apps they use every day.
In honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month we have rounded up some reports and surveys from around the industry that we thought were of interest from Telcion, Mediquant, Zscaler, Netwrix, Sprocket Security, Fortified Health Security, National Cybersecurity Alliance, CybSafe, HIMSS and more.
By Heather Randall PhD – In the digital healthcare space, every third-party vendor you work with introduces some form of risk. Providers depend on billing partners, claims processors, payment platforms, and countless others to keep operations running. That interconnectedness drives efficiency, but it also creates exposure.
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Throughout the month we will be asking our experts to help us navigate cybersecurity in healthcare. This week we take on the threat of legacy systems.