How the healthcare sector is handling cybersecurity training
03/25/24 at 03:00 AM
How the healthcare sector is handling cybersecurity training
Modern Healthcare, by Mari Devereaux; 3/21/24
... Healthcare entities should use the Change Healthcare incident as a lesson on how to strengthen their own cybersecurity and an opportunity to have conversations about third-party risk, contingency planning and vendor backups, said John Riggi, national adviser for cybersecurity and risk at the American Hospital Association. ... Both executives and lower-level staff need to be trained on how to spot a potential social engineering attack, best practices around cyber hygiene, and how to enact downtime procedures in the event that third party services are lost for up to 30 days or longer, Riggi said.