White Paper: Do Your 2024 Cyber Resolutions Match the Current Healthcare Threat Landscape?
In 2023, the healthcare sector endured some of the most widespread cyberattacks and massive data breaches seen in the last decade. Across the country,...
AHA Draws a Line on HHS Proposed Standards: Are Voluntary Standards Enough?
“No organization, including federal agencies, is or can be immune from cyberattacks,” AHA told Healthcare IT News in its response to the Department of...
White Paper: Clinical & Operational Security & Technology Leaders on Centralized Patch Management
Check out the white paper “Centralized Patch Management: Medical Device Security Through a Patient-Safety Lens” by First Health’s Clinical & Operational Security & Technology...
What Does it Mean to Have a Cybersecurity-Driven Healthcare Culture?
By Jessica Davis The reported cyberattacks against the healthcare industry in recent years have shut down hospital access and delayed critical care, with most...
Possible Cyberattack Brings Rural Mississippi Health System Offline
By Jessica Davis Rural provider Singing River Health System in Biloxi, Mississippi is currently operating under downtime procedures, after the IT security team detected...
NIST adds Governance Function to Cybersecurity Framework
By Jessica Davis The National Institute of Standards and Technology issued a draft of the first major update to its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), widely...
Cyberattack Pulls Connecticut Health Network Offline, Spurs Emergency Care Diversion
By Jessica Davis A cyberattack against Eastern Connecticut Health Network has spurred “systemwide IT complications,” according to the ECHN website. The service disruption has...
HCA Health Now Tops Year of Record-Breaking Healthcare Breaches: What’s Behind the Rise?
By Jessica Davis HCA Healthcare is currently investigating what could be the largest reported healthcare data breach so far this year. A Securities and...
CISA, Medtronic Urge Critical Patch of Cardiac Medical Device Tool Flaw
By the First Health Team A vulnerability in the Medtronic Paceart Optima System could enable an attacker to launch remote code execution or a...
HHS Urges Patch of MOVEit Vulnerability, as Company Finds More Security Flaws
By Jessica Davis Following the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in the Progress Software MOVEit Transfer application, the company uncovered additional security flaws that...
Hospital Closure After Cyberattack Sends Warning Shot to Healthcare Sector
By First Health Advisory Low-resourced hospitals face devasting financial and patient safety impacts from cyberattacks, but many lack the needed financial and staffing resources...
Nova Scotia Health Patient Data Stolen via MOVEit Vulnerability
By the First Health team The data tied to at least 100,000 employees of the Nova Scotia government’s public service branch, as well as...
