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5 (more) things we learned by focusing on cybersecurity in October


From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 06:04:46 +0000 (UTC)

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/5-more-things-we-learned-focusing-cybersecurity-october

By Tom Sullivan
Healthcare IT News
October 31, 2018

With National Cybersecurity Awareness Month winding down, we initially reported five things learned from researching and writing about infosec in depth during October.

Real quickly, those include: synthetic ID theft, the benefit of dashboards, consumerism's impact on network perimeters, guidance about what to look for when picking a penetration tester and a rethinking of the belief that humans are your hospital's weakest link.

But there were so many more takeaways this month. Here are another five.

1. Three charts explain where hospitals and systems are today, security-wise. HIMSS Media research found that privacy is the top concern, nailed down more than a dozen ways healthcare organizations are addressing security issues and pinpoints specific job roles involved in establishing strategy and internal policies. Read the full article here.

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