The healthcare industry is not immune to cyberattacks. In fact, it's one of the most vulnerable industries. To protect patient safety and data security, hospitals and healthcare providers need to implement better cybersecurity measures. Today, we review a paper from the office of Senator Mark Warner (VA) that discusses policy options for the healthcare sector.

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What is your Incident Response Plan? If you said "Oh, we'll just call IT," then you need to listen to this podcast. We will review the October 2022 OCR Newsletter that discusses nine procedures that entities should consider including in the incident procedures.

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Keeping up on ways to protect your business from a cyber attack can feel intimidating, especially because of the continuously changing methods criminals use to social engineer us. The bottom line is it only takes one click at any time by anyone to open the door to the attackers.

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As you know, each year we record a Halloween episode. This year we are covering very scary decisions that have come back to haunt several organizations, including an organization's decision not to report a cyber attack, an entity that thought they'd just stroke a check for fines assessed and everything would be OK, and a provider who posted PHI on social media. Listen in and learn what NOT to do.

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Do you remember the saying "there's an app for that"? Apps certainly are cool and convenient, but can you tell whether they are malicious or not? Today, we discuss and give you some vetting tips you can use before you download apps.

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More and more the healthcare industry is using connected medical devices that do cool things, like creating efficiencies in the delivery of patient care and automating tasks for healthcare providers and their staff. But, what about the security of these connected devices? Has anyone thought about that? Well, Ponemon and Cynerio did a study on just that topic and the results are very concerning.

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OCR's right of access initiative keeps on churning with three more cases, making a total of 41 violations of patient right of access so far. Dentists are a known problem when it comes to doing anything for HIPAA privacy and security, including right of access requirements. But, they are quickly learning all about OCR enforcements of HIPAA violations.

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Every year we review the Ponemon Institute's Cost of a Data Breach report. It's always interesting because we learn that it's not just about the money. We learn what really makes a difference in our privacy and security program, what we can do that can make the biggest positive impact in the overall cost or a data breach and, more importantly, what things make the biggest negative impact.

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We follow a lot of the Ponemon studies. They help us see changes and trends and make better recommendations to our clients. We are going to cover their annual cost of an insider breach study. This global study covers insider incidents and provides five signs your organization is at risk.

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The ongoing, rapidly changing cyber war has created a need for us to change our viewpoint on cybersecurity. Yes, we need to worry about cyber hygiene and continue working on ways to secure our systems, networks and data. However, there is also a need to take the "plan for the worst but hope for the best" approach and start focusing on cyber resilience.

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