When phishing attacks infiltrate a popular messaging app like Microsoft Teams, organizations in industries such as healthcare must ramp up their cybersecurity training for providers and IT staff.
A type of phishing vulnerability called Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) exposes assets of a website or server through manipulation of URL parameters, according to Scott Caveza, staff research engineer at cybersecurity...
The main goal of a hospital is to provide patients with optimal care. Unfortunately, events of the past few years have made achieving that objective more difficult. Increasing cyberattacks have forced hospital IT administrators to turn their attention to cybersecurity to protect sensitive patient data. Decreasing revenue streams and rising labor costs have led to budget constraints. Staffing shortages...
Today’s cybercriminals are targeting a wide range of healthcare organizations without discrimination, seeking to profit from their illicit activities. This includes prominent hospital systems, rural hospitals and specialized children’s health institutions, which have recently become prime targets for increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.
In the event of a successful breach, these institutions face exorbitant ransom demands, often in the millions of dollars,...
Healthcare does not always take place in a modern hospital or other controlled setting with abundant connectivity and compute resources. Healthcare is also administered in remote places such as rural areas, war zones, aboard submarines and even on the International Space Station. In these so-called “disadvantaged networks,” where data transfer is difficult, it’s still crucial for healthcare practitioners to...
Healthcare organizations expend a lot of resources to prevent cybersecurity breaches. Keeping attackers away from valuable patient data and clinical systems by implementing effective security measures and training users on proper cyber hygiene is a good approach. But eventually, someone will make a mistake (a click on the wrong link is all it takes) that allows attackers to breach...
Many of the concepts supporting virtual care in the U.S. have existed for decades. Telehealth, for instance, saw one of its earliest use cases in the 1960s, as NASA’s needed to monitor astronauts’ health. Since then, technologies, processes and needs have drastically evolved, and it’s time that healthcare organizations crystalize their visions for more connected care.
CDW Healthcare Strategist Josh...
The explosion of artificial intelligence and generative AI technology is having a profound impact on healthcare. And with adoption set to broaden and accelerate, many organizations plan to hire a chief AI officer to help define their AI strategy and speed adoption.
The CAIO is tasked with helping define the role AI will play, manage investments and priorities, address ethical...
An important yet challenging part of the job for senior leadership at any healthcare organization is to develop a future outlook backed by a plan for making it a reality. One top executive who knows this well is Heather Nelson, senior vice president and CIO at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Nelson is leading the rollout of a hybrid 5G network at...
