American Hospital Association March 3, 2023
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency this week released recommendations to help health care and other critical infrastructure organizations protect their networks from malicious cyber actions, based on a simulated attack the agency conducted against an organization at its request. The advisory highlights the importance of collecting and monitoring logs for unusual activity, and regular testing to ensure security processes and procedures are up to date and effective.
“This highly detailed and technical report is an excellent guide to help implement specific cybersecurity tools that will help detect a cyberattack in the early stages and significantly reduce its spread and impact,” said John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk. “The ‘red team’ or penetration test used a common...