Healthcare IT News November 1, 2019
In 2018, the average cost of a healthcare breach is almost $4M in the US and statistics from 2016 showed that of all the industries in the world, 88% of the cyberattacks are actually happening in healthcare.
In the context of the ever-increasing cybersecurity threats in healthcare, Lori Lazzara, VP of Technology & Engineering, Monitoring and Analytics & Therapeutic Care, Philips, gave a presentation at the HIMSS AsiaPac 19 conference in Bangkok, Thailand in October on how healthcare providers/organisations and manufacturers of healthcare related products/solutions can work together continuously in an ecosystem to improve their cybersecurity measures.
Network security and OS/software patch management: A three-prong approach
Lazzara spoke about a three-prong approach to network security and OS/software patch management –...