Fedscoop June 29, 2021
The Department of Health and Human Services doesn’t routinely share cyber threat information with private sector partners because the two centers responsible haven’t formalized coordination, according to the Government Accountability Office.
GAO found the Healthcare Threat Operations Center, an interagency program providing actionable cyber data, didn’t regularly provide threat information to the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) for sharing with industry.
Private sector partners want more actionable threat information from HC3 with cyberattacks on health care organizations on the rise, since the start of the U.S. COVID-19 response in March 2020, putting patient privacy and telehealth services at risk.
“Given the many players involved in cybersecurity management at the department and in supporting the cybersecurity of the [health care...
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