Health IT Security October 24, 2019
Cyber criminals are continually improving the effectiveness of their attack methods and will leverage any means to financially benefit from these attacks. For healthcare, cybersecurity still remains a challenge: many providers have not reduced their cyber risk.
Healthcare is increasingly being targeting with social engineering and email spoofing to target human nature – one of the sector’s greatest vulnerabilities. In the course of the past month alone, reports have shown ransomware attacks disrupting patient care, unsecured medical databases, and even targeted attacks on healthcare websites.
Saif Abed, MD, Clinical Cyber Defense Systems has spent the bulk of his career working to translate healthcare cybersecurity as a patient safety risk, as well as educating the industry on the risk of cyber...