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Health-ISAC Publishes Inaugural 2021 Annual Report
Capturing a year of connecting for patient safety and healthcare ecosystem resilience
Ormond Beach, FL, March 17 2022 –
Health-ISAC (Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center), the global non-profit that provides the health sector with a trusted forum for helping healthcare organizations remain resilient in the face of cyber and physical security threats, has released its inaugural 2021 Annual Report. The report features a highly successful year for the ISAC in 2021 and illustrates the numerous ways Health-ISAC brings value to its Members as well as the global health community.
Highlighting the theme Connecting for Patient Safety and Healthcare Ecosystem Resilience, the report manifests how Health-ISAC connected Members through information, tools, services, white papers, webinars, education, collaboration, networking, exercises, summits and working group efforts to ensure healthcare organizations around the world could prevent, detect, and respond to physical and cyber threats.
“The need for healthcare owners and operators to connect across the global Healthcare Sector has never been greater,” says Denise Anderson, President and CEO at Health-ISAC. “Through these connections, we are better and stronger together. I am excited to showcase what Health-ISAC and its Community accomplished in 2021.”
During 2021, Health-ISAC connected nearly 6,000 healthcare security professionals worldwide through its collaborative forums, shared over 65,000 indicators of compromise, published over 400 targeted alerts to Members and non-members, conducted over 30 surveys assessing member impacts to various threats, held three successful Summits with participants from 19 countries and shared 242 Finished Intelligence Reports.
“Security and protection of the healthcare sector is our ongoing mission. The Annual Report is a window into myriad touchpoints, information and tools that Health-ISAC Member organizations used in 2021 to improve their cybersecurity and physical posture and will continue to benefit from in the future,” says Health-ISAC Chief Security Officer, Errol Weiss.
Read Health-ISAC’s inaugural Annual Report 2021 here: https://h-isac.org/2021-annual-report/.
ABOUT Health-ISAC
Health-ISAC is a trusted community of critical infrastructure owners and operators within the global Healthcare and Public Health sector (HPH). The community is primarily focused on sharing timely, actionable and relevant information with each other including intelligence on threats, incidents and vulnerabilities and best practices, mitigation strategies and more. Sharing occurs both machine-to-machine and person-to-person. Health-ISAC also fosters the building of relationships and networking through worldwide educational events and white papers. Working groups and committees focus on topics of importance to the sector and member-vetted Community Services offer enhanced services to leverage the Health-ISAC community for the benefit of all. https://h-isac.org/
Contact: contact@h-isac.org