Key Needs for a Resilient Healthcare Information Security Program

riskacademy — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:19:26 +0000

By Jessica Davis

August 26, 2020 – The Office of Civil Rights recently shared ways an IT asset inventory can create a more effective risk analysis to close information security gaps and support HIPAA compliance. Given the sophistication of the current threat landscape, these functions will prove crucial in supporting an overall resilient healthcare information security program.

While cybersecurity awareness has drastically improved across the healthcare sector, Impact Advisor’s Shefali Mookencherry, Principal Advisor and Solution Leader of Information Security, Privacy, and Disaster Recovery, explained that has not translated into a more secure infrastructure.

Currently, there are far too many cybersecurity considerations when it comes to making a more secure healthcare system, as internal users continue to be one of the biggest risks to the healthcare system and hackers are increasingly improving the sophistication of their phishing campaigns, she added. And those threats have rapidly increased amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the last week alone, reports from security

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Key Needs for a Resilient Healthcare Information Security Program