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$15M Singapore-London partnership to help stem APAC's growing healthcare cybersecurity woes

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THE LARGER CONTEXT More and more medical devices are getting hooked up to hospital and home networks and the Internet. In Singapore's public health facilities, for example, about 15% or over 16,000 medical devices have Internet connectivity.

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Connected Medical Devices—the Next Target for Ransomware Attacks

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Ryan Witt, Healthcare Cybersecurity Leader at Proofpoint The Internet of Medical Things, or IoMT, is a deep web of interconnected devices that increasingly plays a vital role in care delivery. About Ryan Witt Ryan Witt is a healthcare cybersecurity leader at the cybersecurity company Proofpoint.

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Healthcare Cybersecurity Is Difficult to Maintain, How a Security Operations Center Can Help

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For example, Lloyd’s of London recently announced its coverages would no longer include cyber attacks from nation-states such as Russia and China. Small and rural hospitals are being priced out of cyber insurance coverage, during a time when remediation costs for a breach or hacking incident can exceed $10 million.

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Measures You Should be Implementing in Your Organization to Strengthen Your Cybersecurity and Protect Your Patient Data

Healthcare IT Today

In addition, lawmakers can aid the healthcare industry by clarifying that discovering vulnerabilities in good faith does not constitute a breach. Otherwise, the healthcare industry loses a significant advantage in identifying and fixing vulnerabilities before cyberattacks occur.

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

All organizations, including those in critical infrastructure industries such as healthcare, need to consider a three-pronged approach to protecting sensitive data: monitoring user behavior, looking at content accessed by users, and applying additional controls to the most highly targeted users—for example, those with privileged access.

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