Fedscoop April 17, 2023
By John Hewitt Jones

The agency has updated information-sharing guidance established in response to the 2015 Cybersecurity Act.

The Department of Health and Human Security has issued a raft of new cybersecurity resources for healthcare companies in response to rising cyberattacks against the sector.

In an update Monday, the agency’s Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force published new guidance for addressing key cybersecurity threats as well as a digital training platform for hospitals.

The new resources come amid an increase in cyberattacks hitting healthcare organizations. In a blog post published last month, Microsoft noted that the number of DDoS attacks against its customers in the healthcare sector had risen from “10-20 attacks in November” to “40-60 attacks daily in February.”

HHS’s new guidance comes...

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Topics: Cybersecurity, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HHS, Provider, Technology
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