In this special CTNT report on healthcare, wefocus on the top threat categories and familiesthat plagued the medical industry over the lastyear, as well as the most common attack methodsused by cybercriminals to penetrate healthcaredefenses. In addition, we highlight the securitychallenges inherent to organizations, from smallprivate practices to enterprise health maintenanceorganizations (HMOs), as well as the reasons whyhackers look to infiltrate their defenses. Finally,we look ahead to future biotech innovations andthe need to consider security in their design andimplementation.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner began its survey of data breach class action litigation six years ago to rectify the information gap and to provide our clients, as well as the broaderlegal, forensic, insurance, and security communities,with reliable and accurate information concerning the risk associated with data breach litigation. Our annual survey continues to be the leading authority on data breach class action litigation and is widely cited throughout the data security community.

This specialized report offers insights into the Healthcare industry and the gaps in policies and procedures that could lead to damaging cyber events within the industry.

This is the infographic that reveals the key information revealed in the report of the same name.

This White Paper attempts to paint a comprehensive picture of the file-borne threat crisis facing health insurance companies due to the tight connection with medical institutions and the immense number of files shared and transferred between the two sectors, as well as explain why current security systems and industry regulations fail to adequately meet this sophisticated threat, and what measures can be taken to guard against it without investing in security infrastructure.

This report takes an inside look at the Cyber Security challenge for healthcare today and more specifically looks at the medical device security challenge.

This report offers some insight into Health Information Technology and the cybersecurity issues that plague that area.

This report takes a look at the healthcare industry and seeks to provide insight into the cyber security issues that remain in that industry.

A first hand account of using open source intelligence techniques to discover publicly exposed data stores of healthcare information.

To gain insight into what’s happening in the healthcare industry when it comes to cybersecurity, Kaspersky Lab issued a survey. The research provides insight into the perceptions of healthcare employees in North America regarding cybersecurity in their workplace, including awareness of cybersecurity breaches, protection of sensitive information, cybersecurity awareness and training, and more. Kaspersky Lab commissioned the research firm Opinion Matters to conduct a survey of 1,758 employees based in healthcare organizations in the United States and Canada. Through this research, the company aims to create a dialogue among businesses and IT staff in healthcare about the current state of awareness of cybersecurity among their employees, along with providing suggested proactive steps that can be taken to prioritize cybersecurity awareness through trainings and consistent education, aiming to prevent or minimize the next cybersecurity issue.

This report provides insight into the state of cybersecurity in Healthcare.

To provide insight into some of the top trends in health IT, the Center for Connected Medicine partnered with The Health Management Academy to survey C-suite health system executives on health IT priorities for 2018. The quantitative and qualitative surveys focused on five areas: Cybersecurity, Consumer-Facing Technology, Virtual Care, Artificial Intelligence, and Predictive Analytics.

Historically, the annual Most Wired research has focused on measuring adoption of healthcare information technology to highlight those organizations with the broadest, deepest IT infrastructure. With the ever-growing need to improve healthcare, the research now adds a new emphasis on measuring key areas that can help advance the industry as well as on gathering information about organizations’ technology strategies (which include not just technology adoption but also the refinement of processes and the development of people). With this new focus, this year’s research and future Most Wired research can help identify gaps in healthcare organizations’ technology adoption and strategies and highlight areas in which the industry has opportunities to make progress.

This report outlines key findings from the 2017 KPMG/Forbes Insights CyberSecurity Survey of 100 senior executives from the healthcare field. [One-hundred senior life sciences executives were surveyed as well.] The findings indicate that companies are elevating cyber security to a strategic imperative but at a pace that lags behind their desire to adopt digital technologies to drive innovation. To illustrate, we take a look at the current and desired states of cyber security in healthcare through the lenses of data sharing, vendor management, and medical device implementation. We conclude with our guidance on where organizations should be focusing their efforts.

This report provides a comprehensive list of all the data breaches that have occurred in the spring of 2018.

This report is geared towards the healthcare community and seeks to provide helpful information to guide organizations in their Data Loss Prevention struggles.

This article from the UK discusses ways that organizations can protect themselves from future Malware attacks.

This report seeks to discuss the issues related to archaic communication devices in the hospital setting. It hopes to provide assistance for the security issues related to updating communication systems.

As stated in the report, “The purpose of this study is to shed light on the problem of medical data loss—how it is disclosed, who is causing it and what can be done to combat it.”

Though the mobile phone has overtaken society, some industries still rely on the old pager technology. This paper takes a look at the security risks that come with using that old technology.

This research report is about theft in the healthcare industry. Specifically, it describes the marketplace for stolen healthcare industry data and examines the motivations for its theft.