Debunking the cybersecurity thought that humans are the weakest link

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By Tom Sullivan
Healthcare IT News
October 15, 2018

BOSTON - The time has come to move beyond the security mantra "don't click 
on email links or open attachments and we'll all be safer."

"We've been saying that for 15 years and the strategy doesn't work," said 
Theresa Payton, CEO of Fortalice Solutions and former White House CIO said 
here on Monday at the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum.

Instead, Payton said that she is still seeing business email compromises 
on the rise in healthcare.

"From a social engineering standpoint, it has never been easier to trick 
employees," Payton added. "Business email compromise is one of the largest 
unreported crimes after ransomware."

What's more, there's a 25 percent probability that any given healthcare 
organization will be hacked in the next 2.5 years, said Salwa Rafee, 
worldwide security leader for healthcare and life sciences at IBM.

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