Every organization is trying to find ways to mitigate workplace violence, but healthcare organizations have several obstacles that can make this difficult task even more challenging. 

Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler and the Website Planet team discovered an unsecured database containing 886,521,320 records.

NTT’s AppSec Stats Flash Volume 10 show 52% of the applications in the healthcare industry have at least one serious vulnerability — rating ‘high’ or ‘critical’ on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System scale — open throughout the year.

Inova Health System began a Behavioral Health Officer program several years ago with the goal of creating a specialized group of security personnel to reduce workplace violence incidents. Since then, the program has grown, evolved and proven its value to the organization many times over.

At HCA Healthcare, Kat Kemper, Director of Physical Security, has built the enterprise security program from the ground up, developing and implementing physical security measures to support patient care, privacy and overall security goals.

A Northern Light Acadia Hospital employee emailed a Bangor Daily News (“BDN”) reporter in response to a request for unrelated information, mistakenly sending an email with an attached file that contained information related to certain patients, Northern Light Acadia Hospital says. 

Sexual assaults, a life-altering concussion, shattered faces, fractured bones, and brain injury are some of the workplace violence injuries sustained by Ontario health care staff.

A new report reveals that 77% of all detected ransomware globally was in four main sectors – business & professional services (28%), government (19%), health care (15%) and retail (15%).

Hospital and healthcare settings offer many ways to use video surveillance. The security needs of these institutions reflect the life-or-death work they do and also a volatile environment where emotions can run high.