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

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

Starting a week with the news that talk about patient data breach from a radiology interface is not comforting to many imaging centers or radiology departments. The total cost could easily get into millions of dollars considering tens of thousands of patient records at stake and average cost per breached record to be around $400. Clearly, cyber risk management is certainly not the one that imaging center or hospital leadership should take it lightly or delegate down in the or

Healthcare is currently the industry most susceptible to hacking. According to Gemalto’s Data Breach Index, healthcare came first in having the most data records (~ 386 million) stolen in 2016. According to a recent British Medical Journal article, 81% of 223 organizations surveyed, and >110 million patients in the US had their data compromised in 2015 alone; only half of these healthcare providers think that they are capable of defending themselves from cyber attacks, and

The aftermath of WannaCry ransomware attacks have left many healthcare CIOs, CISOs and medical device manufacturers more concerned about device security than ever. The healthcare community, however, has been aware of potential cybersecurity related vulnerabilities and threats to their medical devices for sometime now. In fact, many publications, experiments and actual events have tried to surface these risks: In 2011 , a security expert hacked into an insulin pump at the Blac