BC Advantage - 2020 Issue 11

The Biggest Threat to Healthcare Cybersecurity: Telehealth

According to a recent study by SecurityScorecard and Dark Owl, "Telehealth systems have experienced an enormous increase in targeted attacks." This finding should not surprise anyone. After all, on March 16, 2020, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that "it is investigating a suspicious spike in activity on its network over the weekend, in what security officials called a ‘cyber incident' that did not disrupt the agency's response to the COVID-19 virus." On March 17, 2020, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that that it will waive potential HIPAA...

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