Healthcare IT News December 30, 2019
A cybersecurity expert discusses how digital risks and the needs of patient care turn health data into a liability, and that CIOs and CISOs must treat data as a living, breathing entity.
Healthcare IT News asked Dr. Zulfikar Ramzan, chief technology officer at RSA Security, a vendor that identifies, assesses, monitors and protects digital assets, to dig deep and identify a healthcare cybersecurity issue that is not one of the common ones, a serious threat that perhaps might be somewhat overlooked. He was all over this question.
“One issue related to security in healthcare settings that keeps me up at night and that is off the beaten path is data liability,” he stated. “Data is the greatest asset of the...