Healthcare Organizations Feeling Cyber Attacks Growing
Ellen Messmer writes on NetworkWorld:
Healthcare organizations are stepping up efforts to protect electronic patient information as they witness increased attacks against hospital networks, mindful how a data breach could hurt patients and their own reputations.More here.
“There is definitely an uptick in attacks,” says Dr. John Halamka, CIO at both Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in the Boston area. “Privacy is the foundation of everything we do. We don’t want to be the TJX of healthcare.” TJX is the Framingham, Mass-based retailer which last year disclosed a massive data breach involving customer records.
posted by Fergie @ 2/27/2008 06:29:00 PM
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I just attended a cyber attack briefing that was done by Kevin Coleman of Technolytics. IN his presentation he presented the top industries targeted by cyber attackers. Manuafacturing was number one, financial services was number two and healthcare was number three. Of course this ranking excluded the DOD and of other military, security and defese systems.
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