Intelligent CIO spoke to Kamal Brar, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific and Japan at Rubrik, to find out more about cybersecurity threats to the healthcare sector. Healthcare is tasked with the massive responsibility of looking after patients, and the responsibility grew all the bigger with the pandemic. However, healthcare’s massive responsibility made the sector one […]

Red Cross has been hit by a cyberattack that has exposed over 515,000 vulnerable people’s data, forcing the organisation to shut down systems and operations. The attack compromised personal data and confidential information on more than 515,000 highly vulnerable people, including those separated from their families due to conflict, migration and disaster, missing persons and […]

Saket Modi, Co-Founder and CEO at Safe Security, tells us that the healthcare sector can improve its cyber-risk management by adopting a proactive strategy that includes knowing an organization’s breach-likelihood in real-time. For more than the past decade, healthcare has been the biggest target of data breaches. The total average cost has increased to US$9.23 […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a catalyst for an increased number of cyber incidents thrust upon the healthcare sector, which had to be managed quickly and efficiently to protect against the vaccine rollout. The NCSC’s 2021 Annual Review highlights the work undertaken to protect the UK over the past 12 months. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) […]

Medatixx, a German medical software vendor whose products are used in over 21,000 health institutions, urges customers to change their application passwords following a ransomware attack that has severely impaired its entire operations. The firm clarified that the impact has not reached clients and is limited to its internal IT systems and shouldn’t affect any of […]

Not-for-profit organizations are vulnerable to cyberattacks and ransomware, yet some don’t have adequate security built into their IT infrastructures, making it more difficult to detect malware and recover data. Anglicare Southern Queensland took a proactive approach to security and ransomware protection with Veeam. Anglicare Southern Queensland began 150 years ago when five pioneering women founded […]

Outpost24, an innovator in identifying and managing cybersecurity exposure, has announced results from its 2021 Web Application Security for Healthcare report, which analysed the top 10 American healthcare providers, as ranked by the 100 largest hospitals and health systems in the US. The report revealed the majority of US healthcare providers (90%) had an external attack […]

It has been reported that the protected health information of hundreds of thousands of Americans has been exposed in two separate security incidents at eye-care providers in the United States. Simon Eye Management reported a data breach to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights on September 14. An email hacking incident at […]

A study of 600 CISOs explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a transformation in the shift to home working and how this has contributed to the rise in the number of cyberattacks targeting organisations. A new study has revealed an overwhelming percentage (75%) of CISOs consider their organisation to be at greater risk of […]

NHS Digital has defended wide-spread criticism about its plans to share patient data with third-parties. Fears grew around the confidentiality of patient data, but the organisation pointed out that patients can opt-out of the process. An NHS Digital spokesperson said: “Patient data is already used every day to plan and improve healthcare services, for research […]