A shareholder has filed a lawsuit against LabCorp and 12 of its executives and directors - including the medical testing company's CIO - over two data breaches, including the 2019 breach of one of its vendors, American Medical Collection Agency, which affected millions of patients.
The average ransom paid by victims to ransomware attackers reached $111,605 in the first quarter of this year, up 33% from the previous quarter, reports ransomware incident response firm Coveware, which sees the Sodinokibi, Ryuk and Phobos malware families continuing to dominate.
Many governments are pursuing contact-tracing apps to combat COVID-19, but such projects risk subjecting populations to invasive, long-term surveillance - as well as insufficient adoption - unless they take an open, transparent and as decentralized approach, says cybersecurity expert Alan Woodward.
Delivering healthcare is a multifaceted process that requires mental and physical support for patients as well as their families. That's why digitally and physically transforming the security experience for patients and visitors is a critical part of the total patient care equation.
In spite of this, many...
Digitally and physically transforming the security experience for patients and visitors is a critical part of the total patient care equation.
In spite of this, many organizations continue to handle their physical identity and access management through manual processes with data housed in disparate physical...
Connected medical devices are now an integral part of modern healthcare - from pacemakers and insulin pumps to wearable monitoring devices. However, persistent and unmitigated vulnerabilities in the medical device hardware, networks and applications are putting intellectual property, personal data and patient safety...
COVID-19: Modern society has never seen anything like it, and neither have financial markets. Venture capitalist Alberto Yépez analyzes the impact of the disease caused by the new coronavirus on public and private companies' valuations, as well as technology buyers and the threat environment.
The process of constructing a holistic policy-based identity management solution can be difficult and overly complex, especially in the sensitive hospital environment with myriad identities. However, an integrated identity ecosystem provides a unified view across both cyber and physical security system; improving the...
RSA 2020 touched on a number of topics, including the security of elections and supply chains, plus AI, zero trust and frameworks, among many others. But from sessions on cryptography, to this year's lower attendance, to the antibacterial dispensers dotted around venues, concerns over COVID-19 also dominated.
Intelligent Security to Protect Your Most Vulnerable Patients
Delivering healthcare is a multifaceted process that requires mental and physical support for patients as well as their families. That's why digitally and physically transforming the security experience for patients and visitors is a critical part of the...
Very few healthcare Infosec teams have the time and resources to deal with the formidable security challenges that they face.
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As a technology company interacting with sensitive healthcare data, ClearDATA understands the importance working with trustworthy and compliant third-parties that hold with their customers' information. With critical data housed across three major public cloud providers, ClearDATA needed a centralized software...
If third parties are accessing your network, whether you're using a VPN, a vendor-supplied support tool, or a Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution to manage network vendor access, the limitations of those tools leave you vulnerable to breaches. But, you can't manage risks that you don't know you have....
Securing medical devices properly is of crucial importance. However, before this goal can be completely achieved, there are several challenges to overcome.
Apple previously scuttled plans to add end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups, Reuters reports, noting that such a move would have complicated law enforcement investigations. But the apparent olive branch hasn't caused the U.S. government to stop vilifying strong encryption and the technology giants that provide it.
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