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...
CEO featured in Discussion of Cybersecurity Policy Changes and Leadership Buy-in
CHIME just released “Leader-to-Leader: The Importance of Cybersecurity Policy Changes and Leadership Buy-in,” the 50th episode of the Digital Health Leaders Podcast, which features...
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...
Oct. 1 Deadline for FDA Medical Device Cyber Standards: How Providers Should Prepare
By the First Health Team In less than three months, the Food and Drug Administration will begin to “refuse to accept” medical devices and...
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...
White House National Cyber Workforce Strategy Supports Veteran Programs
By First Health Team In its latest effort to bolster critical infrastructure cybersecurity, the Biden Administration is taking aim at cyber staffing gaps through...
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...
Executive Branch Zeros in on Healthcare, Critical Infrastructure Cyber Protections
By First Health Team The Biden Administration is working to expand cyber protections for the healthcare, education, and agriculture industries, as part of 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...
