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It makes perfect sense – study what your adversaries are doing and plan your defenses accordingly. If they’re coming in the windows every time, perhaps you don’t need to keep adding locks to the door. And studies have been done in healthcare showing there is a typical attack profile that often entails moving from a […]
What are the keys to successfully conducting cyber tabletops? Matt Christiansen, senior director of cybersecurity at Intermountain, provides useful tips in this post, from starting small to easing up on the ‘90s action film jargon.”
Effective cybersecurity strategy starts with developing an adversarial mindset and understanding the likely first and last steps a bad actor will take when entering and exiting a network, according to Intermountain VP/CISO Erik Decker, who made the comments at the 2024 HIMSS Global Conference during a session entitled, “Break the Attack Chain: Understanding Cybercriminals’ Focus […]
The Change Healthcare breach is just the latest piece of evidence that healthcare does, indeed, need a change, according to a panel of cybersecurity experts. At ViVE24, they unveiled a 5-year plan to upgrade security and resiliency across healthcare, and shared insights on what will take to achieve it.
Cybersecurity in healthcare is at a tipping point, poised to move from the voluntary to the mandatory, although not quite yet. For now, it’s still up to organizations as to whether not they want to comply with any specific framework or set of best practices. Of course, demonstrating adherence to 405(d)’s HICP should get some […]
Erik Decker, VP and CISO at Intermountain Healthcare, says consistently getting the basics of cybersecurity right goes a very long way to keeping an organization secure.
For healthcare leaders, it’s more important than ever to offer flexibility to their team members. But the understanding needs to be mutual, according to Craig Richardville, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Intermountain Healthcare, who talks about striking a balance.
Intermountain Healthcare AVP/CISO Erik Decker wants health systems to know that implementing a handful of approved best practices can go a long way to staying out of hot water.
With attacks becoming more widespread and damaging, it no longer falls on a single department – or health system – to manage it alone, according to our cybersecurity experts. “You need a lot of friends to get this done.”
The impending data blocking requirements mark a key milestone in the journey toward interoperability, but there are still significant hurdles that need to be dealt with, said our panelists during a recent webinar.
