Healthcare IT News December 7, 2021
“It’s not about ultimate security. It’s about doing what’s right for the organization, and it should be business-driven,” said one expert at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum.
If ransomware attacks are still not quite an inevitability, they’re more common than ever across healthcare, and the threat is still an unwelcome fact of life for hospitals and health systems trying to keep their data – and their patients – safe.
At the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Monday, two security leaders – Stephen Dunkle, chief information security officer at Geisinger, and Steve Cagle, CEO of Clearwater – offered some useful perspectives on ransomware risk-mitigation.
“Cybersecurity traditionally has been around building a strategy with a well-defined perimeter, and building that wall, and...