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

Security researchers have recently uncovered vulnerabilities in potentially all modern processors, affecting nearly all computing devices and operating systems, known by two names, Meltdown and Spectre. The processors are found in everything from personal computers to medical devices . While there are no known exploits yet, the risk still remains until mitigated by appropriate fixes. In case of medical devices, the risk also depends on the type of device i.e. life supporting