Healthcare IT News May 20, 2024
Andrea Fox

The guide, which encourages secure-by-design software development, is the latest in government efforts to shore up vulnerable organizations. It summarizes cybersecurity best practices and links to free support resources.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released new guidance for high-risk nonprofit and other resource-constrained community organizations to improve their understanding and efforts to mitigate cyberthreats.

But the upcoming 2024 election could have a huge impact on CISA’s broader efforts, including recently completed national cyber exercises on data protection, to address security deficiencies across several critical sectors, Director Jen Easterly reported to the Senate last week.

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Because civil society organizations, which include certain healthcare organizations, are “ill-prepared for and vulnerable to” social engineering attempts and other common cyber...

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