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

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 ...

According to a recent IBM study, the average cost per healthcare cyberattack is a hefty $7 million. Despite numbers like this, cybersecurity often isn’t the C-suite’s top priority.

Layered defenses he advocates merge hardware safeguards with AI monitoring. Blockchain-based audit trails and homomorphic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“This report underlines that cyber safety is patient safety; protecting healthcare systems and medical data from cyber attacks is critical to ensuring continuity in patient care and avoiding ...

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 ...

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 ...