Lexology March 16, 2023
Covington & Burling LLP

On March 8, 2023, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), through the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response and the Health Sector Coordinating Counsel Joint Cybersecurity Working Group, released an updated version of its Cybersecurity Framework Implementation Guide (the “Guide”) “to help the public and private health care sectors prevent cybersecurity incidents.” Specifically, the Guide aims to help healthcare organizations leverage the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to “determine their cybersecurity goals, assess their current cybersecurity practices, or lack thereof, and help identify gaps for remediation.”

Leveraging the NIST CSF. The Guide, which is voluntary, is intended to help healthcare organizations strengthen their cybersecurity programs and reduce risk by implementing the National Institute for Standards and Technology (“NIST”)...

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