Cybersecurity experts explore ways to strengthen cybersecurity in healthcare
Cybersecurity experts testified at a May 18 senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing that cybersecurity training and advocacy was needed to strengthen cybersecurity in healthcare. Denise Anderson, PhD, president and CEO of the Health Information...
Senate considers how to better protect health care from cyber threats
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee last week held a hearing on how to strengthen cybersecurity in the health care and education sectors, from training and recruiting more cyber security experts to helping organizations share information. In...
Experts Testify on Healthcare Cybersecurity Issues at Senate Hearing
At the Senate HELP hearing, industry leaders testified on the current state of healthcare cybersecurity, advocating for immediate improvements to federal cybersecurity protocols. By Jill McKeon May 23, 2022 - The US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and...
“Voluntary practices” in healthcare insufficient for its dependence on legacy tech
Although Congress, regulators and healthcare leaders are doing “many correct things," the current state of “voluntary practices, where we take our time, have not proven sufficient to transcend the market failures,” Josh Corman, founder of the voluntary organization of...
Feds Warn Health Sector of Top Russia-Backed APT Groups
Alert Comes as Other Ransomware Assaults, Data Leaks Plague Medical Providers Federal authorities are alerting healthcare sector entities of advanced persistent threats posed by Russian state-sponsored cyber and espionage groups, including some linked to attacks on...
Health-ISAC Presents Expert Testimony to Senate Committee
Health-ISAC President and CEO Denise Anderson gave expert testimony to U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in a full Committee hearing about Cybersecurity in the Health and Education Sectors Access recorded session here:...
Ransomware Attacks on Hospitals Put Patients at Risk
A University of Vermont Medical Center employee accidentally opened an emailed file from her homeowners association, which had been hacked, in October 2020. That one mistake eventually led to the University of Vermont Health Network, which includes the state’s largest...
Cyware Launches Industry’s First Automated ISAC-to-ISAC Operational Collaboration Initiative
Cyware Launches Industry’s First Automated ISAC-to-ISAC Operational Collaboration Initiative to Eliminate Barriers to Cross-Sectoral Threat Intel Sharing New automated sharing capability will benefit more than 10,000 organizations from major industry sectors with...
Ransomware Files Podcast: Ryuk’s Rampage
The Ransomware Files Podcast by Jeremy Kirk, Executive Editor, Information Security Media Group Health-ISAC Chief Security Officer, Errol Weiss, adds some background to this discussion on Ransomware. If there are two industry verticals where...
Health-ISAC Monthly Newsletter – May 2022
May's Newsletter features: ~ Health-ISAC's 2022 Spring Americas Summit -- Download and sign into the H-ISAC Summit App ~ Health-ISAC Takes a Stand - Health-ISAC helps protect the global health sector through botnet disruption ~ Annual Member Survey -- It Only Takes 9...