Senators Introduce Rural Hospital Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
The Rural Hospital Cybersecurity Enhancement Act aims to address cybersecurity workforce gaps and improve cybersecurity training at rural healthcare facilities. Health-ISAC mention in HealthcareIT Security: As rural hospitals continue to face challenges with...
Podcast: Takeaways from the APAC Summit 2023
Interview with Errol Weiss, Chief Security Officer, Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center (Health-ISAC). "Cybercriminals continue to evolve and are very sophisticated and determined to monetize vulnerabilities. Now we're hearing about double and triple...
Monthly Member Newsletter – May 2023
May newsletter features: - Member Satisfaction Survey May 1-19 (In today's Member email) - Remote Identity Proofing white paper - A Health-ISAC Guide for CISOs - Preparedness & Resiliency Exercise Series After-Action Report - Photos and Highlights from Dublin...
3 Best Practices For Maturing Healthcare Third-Party Risk Management
Panelists discussed top third-party risk management challenges and best practices at the HealthITSecurity Virtual Summit. Health-ISAC quote: “Vendor partners often operate in multiple sectors, so they don’t always have an appreciation for HIPAA, and HIPAA is complex,”...
‘We’re here to help,’ says CISA chief as ransomware risks proliferate
At the HIMSS23 Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, Nitin Natarajan, deputy director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said protecting against escalating cyberattacks is a "joint effort" between government and the private sector. Health-ISAC...
Microsoft Teams Up to Take Legal Action Against Cybercriminals
Microsoft, Fortra, and others allied to obtain a court order to disrupt cracked copies of software used in ransomware attacks. Health-ISAC quote: The court order enables Microsoft and its partners to sever the connection between cybercriminals and infected computers,...
Why reporting an incident only makes the cybersecurity community stronger
CISOs and cyber leaders may not see reporting a breach as the most pleasant of tasks, but experts say mandatory and voluntary sharing of intelligence around incidents can only improve the readiness and resilience of responders. By Mary K. Pratt Contributing...
Microsoft turns to court order to take down ransomware hacking tool that targeted hospitals
Microsoft and a group of cybersecurity firms received help from the courts with the massive takedown Thursday of a notorious hacking tool that had been co-opted by cybercriminals to target hospitals and healthcare systems. Joining...
Microsoft, hospital group use court order to disrupt ransomware attacks aimed at health sector
Health-ISAC mention: Many hospitals “end up in (the hackers’) crosshairs because they are underfunded and don’t have appropriate security controls in place,” said Errol Weiss, H-ISAC’s chief security officer. Weiss told CNN that he believes many hospitals are quietly...
Stopping cybercriminals from abusing security tools
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), cybersecurity software company Fortra™ and Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) are taking technical and legal action to disrupt cracked, legacy copies of Cobalt Strike and abused Microsoft software,...