Healthcare IT News December 7, 2022
Healthcare organizations can streamline their vendor management processes – minimizing friction to reduce third-party risk while creating a culture of resilience that improves incident response when mission-critical services go down.
BOSTON – Chief information security officers from Intermountain Health, Northwell Health and Renown Health shared insights and guidance on how to make third-party management a priority during the 2022 HIMSS Cybersecurity Forum.
Rather than focus on the very data-specific view of third-party risks, Erik Decker, assistant vice president and CISO at Intermountain Healthcare, opened the third-party risk management panel by positing a hypothesis and focusing the attendees on the mission-critical nature of healthcare providers’ third-party services.
“It’s not highly sophisticated [advanced persistent threats], nation-state actors that are spending exorbitant amounts...