GovInfoSecurity July 3, 2023
Federal regulators are once again reminding healthcare entities and their vendors of the importance of utilizing strong multifactor authentication in helping to fend off hacks and other compromises – but they warn about avoiding common mistakes of MFA.
Robust authentication – especially multifactor authentication – provides the first line of defense against intrusions and attacks, and the No. 1 mistake is not implementing multifactor authentication to begin with, according to a Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights bulletin issued Friday.
“Healthcare is lagging when it comes to fully adopting multifactor authentication,” said Tom Walsh, president of privacy and security consultancy tw-Security. “Some of this could be because of legacy applications and systems that do not support...
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