MedPage Today March 15, 2024
— To start with, more “outside in” testing is needed, expert says
The federal government could be doing more to prevent cyberattacks like the one that happened to Change Healthcare, the UnitedHealth Group (UHG) subsidiary, a cybersecurity expert told MedPage Today.
Change Healthcare likely was performing the kind of “penetration tests” needed to help determine how vulnerable its system was to being hacked, but “I think we, as a nation, are doing a very poor job with regard to creating requirements for outside reporting” of those penetration tests to a government agency, said Jason Hogg, a former FBI special agent. “And I also believe … we should actually have an independent government agency, whether it’s under the Department of Homeland...
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