Physicians Practice October 11, 2022
Working from home offers flexibility for staff, gateway for cyberattacks.
Working from home offers flexibility for medical staff and a new avenue for hackers to compromise data from physicians’ offices and health care systems.
Employees remain the weakest link in the cyber security chain that protects computer networks and patient information that by law must remain confidential, said Jeffery Daigrepont, senior vice president for health information technology for Coker Group, physician advisory group based in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Daigrepont presented “Confessions of a Hacker: How Cyberattackers Have Targeted Remote Workers,” as part of 2022 Medical Practice Excellence Leaders Conference of the Medical Group Management Association. He noted he is not a real computer hacker – but there are plenty out there...
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