Consumers of any solution expect the solution to function reliably as intended without any unanticipated consequences. The “reliability” and “avoidance of unanticipated consequence” aspects often become an afterthought especially when organizations embark on new innovations and start with a Minimal Viable Product (MVP). Once the basic functional requirements are accepted by consumers, these organizations are pressured to launch these solutions into the market. In digital solu

Product cybersecurity offers an opportunity to further optimize the value-price-cost equation to achieving margin accretive growth.

Recent supply-chain related cyber incidents may indicate value in "strategic air-gaps" and risk-management mindset in security architecture!

Ransomware attacks have skyrocketed in healthcare. Organizations now need to focus more on leadership and processes rather than just tools.

The closing months of 2020 saw a 45% increase in cyber-attacks targeted towards healthcare organizations. Healthcare providers of all types and sizes have been breached. A report by Black Book Market Research predicts that data breaches in the healthcare industry are likely to triple in volume in 2021. In fact, the recent SolarWinds breach and its ripple effect has left many organizations concerned. So, how does an organization prepare itself to securely operate in today’s dy

Healthcare is moving away from hospitals into a variety of distributed settings. According to McKinsey, the areas expected to see the most growth include telemedicine, retail clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care and dental clinics. Retail clinics in particular are gaining considerable momentum. The use of retail clinics grew at a rate of 28% per year between 2013 and 2017. Walmart and CVS both are experimenting with retail models through which consumers can get

Ransomware attack led disruptions have become a new challenge for Chief Operating Officers (COO) to manage according to the experience shared by a leader at the Wyoming Health System. The resulting downtime from ransomware attacks has reached an average of 9.3 days and, unfortunately, the cyber-attacks and breaches in healthcare show no sign of slowing down. They certainly raise questions about the complexity of today’s digital environment, sophistication of attacks, organiz

Not a day goes by without hearing about a cyber incident in healthcare. Data breaches are projected to cost the industry $4 billion by year end. At the same time, these cyber-attacks are getting more sophisticated. According to a recent xtelligent media ar ticle , attacks using the encryption-based malware – often leading to ransomware - have already doubled relative to 2018. The resulting downtime from the ransomware attacks has reached an average of 9.3 days. At the same ti

Cybersecurity has become one of the most significant financial and reputational risks for an organization. Examples of the ever-increasing cybersecurity threats include: More than 22 government entities in Texas, Florida, Maryland and Georgia faced ransomware recently Louisiana declared a state of emergency after ransomware hit many schools HHS/OCR received notification of 351 data breaches in 2018 exposing 13,020,821 healthcare records Almost 120 million new malwares are