As COVID-19 ravaged hospitals’ patient care units last year, opportunistic criminals saw an opportunity to pluck low-hanging fruit: Hacking groups decided to breach and ransom healthcare institutions during a time of global crisis.
Security spoke to Joey Johnson, Chief Information Security Officer of Premise Health, a direct healthcare provider, about how healthcare security leaders can keep up with rising cybersecurity threats.
While the Kaseya, SolarWinds and other cyberattacks and global disruptors may appear dissimilar, having wildly varying causes and impacts, there is strategic value in considering them – and the supply chains they spread across – as a collective. Together, they represent a rapid learning opportunity for both adversaries and defenders – an open-source global weapons development program.
IT executives and senior leaders are key drivers of success. For an organization to quickly realize a tech vision and reap the benefits of digitization, leaders must have cutting-edge technical knowledge, a shared vision for change and, most critically, a people-focused approach that empowers the organization now and in the future.
Tim Danks, Huawei VP of Risk Management, discusses his thoughts on cybersecurity and the great need for global collaboration to build cyber risk management standards across the world.
In today’s business environment security is a fundamentally functional and non-functional requirement and cannot be an afterthought where issues are chased after systems are operational. That’s why it’s vital that best practices be implemented by companies from the onset of any cloud migration strategy: backed by a robust and real-time capability to plan, investigate, and respond to all security incidents.
A proactive approach to risk management capitalizes on video surveillance, physical security, intelligence and cybersecurity coming together to provide actionable data for continued operations.
Zero Trust and SASE have become top of mind for many organizations globally in the past year as business models changed overnight to accommodate a remote workforce, bringing an expanded attack surface.
Steve Grewal, Cohesity Federal CTO and former U.S. Department of Education CISO/CTO/CIO, shares his insights into how organizations can leverage modern data management strategies and technologies to ensure they are prepared to reduce the impact of ransomware attacks while being ready for audit and reporting processes to remain compliant with increasing state-by-state regulations.