Becker's Healthcare July 23, 2024
America needs a “cyber dome” to protect against the increasing number of cyberattacks that are plaguing healthcare, according to nine former HHS and Veterans Affairs secretaries.
“Such a dome would provide an invisible layer of advanced protection technology to prevent cyberattacks rather than physical assaults,” they wrote July 22 in U.S. News & World Report. “It could be implemented by all entities that collect, store and use patient care data.”
Citing the recent hacks of Change Healthcare and St. Louis-based Ascension, the former leaders said healthcare needs a cybersecurity version of Operation Warp Speed, which helped quickly develop vaccines for COVID-19. The new public-private partnership would “lead to the rapid deployment of digital infrastructure to track threats online, anticipate cyberassaults...
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