Organizations, no matter the size, need to move with urgency to strengthen cybersecurity as they have other technological ...

If there’s one constant in healthcare cybersecurity, it’s change. From the ever-evolving tactics to the Whack-a-Mole of hacker groups, health system cybersecurity leaders must remain vigilant to ...

Healthcare cybersecurity still has room to improve safety Steve Winterfeld, Akamai’s advisory chief information and security officer, outlines the threat of cyberattacks to healthcare ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a report (PDF) earlier this year on ransomware and its impacts on healthcare, saying that there were more than 630 ransomware incidents ...

Rural hospitals are bracing for Medicaid cuts that could affect their cybersecurity. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law July 4 by President Donald Trump, slashes Medicaid funding by ...

Cybersecurity training: Training staff in basic healthcare cybersecurity, such as never clicking on a link in an email from an unverified source, can play a big role in reducing cyber threats.

Prior to the pandemic, data breaches and other cyberthreats were hitting the healthcare world hard. But the advent of COVID-19 both introduced new challenges and accelerated existing ones.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a healthcare cybersecurity guide on Friday in an effort to create consistency in mitigating cyber threats. The department describes the ...

"We saw hundreds of healthcare delivery organizations disrupted by ransomware attacks," says Josh Corman, who earlier this year ended an 18-month stint as healthcare sector chief strategist at the ...

Cybersecurity used to be seen as a compliance initiative in healthcare but has become a patient safety and business imperative in recent years. For MDMs, tying market delays and metrics to a lack ...

Scripps Health, a large health system in California, on May 1 experienced a "disruption" to its IT systems, which has since been tied to malware discovered on the health system's computer network.

New legislation aims to tame ‘Wild West’ in healthcare cybersecurity The proposed bill, introduced last month by Sens. Ron Wyden and Mark Warner, is a good step forward, but hospitals may need ...