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Enterprise Cyber Risk Management Software (ECRMS): Securing Healthcare’s Digital Transformation

Oct 18, 2019 |

Managing cyber risk in healthcare today is complex. Risk presents itself in an ever-changing threat landscape, filled with bad actors who don’t play by the rules. A healthcare organization trying to manage this cyber risk without software designed for this purpose is no better off than one who is trying to manage payment processing, payroll, or electronic medical record keeping with spreadsheets.

As discussed in this white paper, a best-in-class Enterprise Cyber Risk Management Software (ECRMS) platform not only facilitates compliance with regulations, but also creates the basis for a comprehensive, integrated, and holistic approach to identifying, managing and reducing cyber risk across the evolving healthcare IT ecosystem. Deploying an ECRMS in a healthcare organization is no longer an option – it is a necessity in order to maintain secure operations in today’s increasingly digitized health environment.​

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Complying With New York’s SHIELD Act

Oct 11, 2019 |

What should healthcare organizations know about complying with the breach notification and data security requirements of New York’s SHIELD Act? And how does the new law compare with HIPAA? Jon Moore, chief risk officer at consulting firm Clearwater, explains.

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5 critical components in protecting servers from breaches

Oct 8, 2019 |

Servers appear to be the Achilles heel of healthcare organizations’ data protection efforts. About 54 percent of all individuals affected by an information breach of a healthcare organizations were impacted by a breach involving that organization’s server, according to data on the breach portal of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, culling security incidents from June 1, 2018, to May 31, 2019. A report this summer from Clearwater’s CyberIntelligence Institute says that, of the breaches in the previous 12 months, 90 healthcare breaches affecting more than 9 million individuals, were related to servers in some way.

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Mitigating the Risks Posed by Malicious Insiders

Sep 4, 2019 |

Every organization should understand their own unique risk profile based on the impact to their organization of a breach, the vulnerabilities that exist within their unique portfolio of information assets and all reasonable threats that might exploit those vulnerabilities including insider threats.

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