McKnight's April 18, 2023
Jessica R. Towhey

Nursing homes and other healthcare entities have become the hottest target of cyber criminals, experts say. Now operators don’t have to just wait and wonder if bad things are going to happen.

Providers can tap into new security training and other free resources designed to educate their workforce on avoiding activities that can open facilities to cyberattacks.

The US Department of Health and Human Services has released a new, online platform called Knowledge on Demand that offers free training to raise awareness of cyber issues. The five topics the platform covers are social engineering, ransomware, loss or theft of equipment or data, insider accidental or malicious data loss, and attacks against network connected medical devices, according to a press release....

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