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Helping Healthcare Organizations Stay Agile and Protect Data

Pure Storage

Helping Healthcare Organizations Stay Agile and Protect Data by Pure Storage Blog Imagine that your healthcare business needs to pay cybercriminals tens of millions of dollars to recover data and systems encrypted in a ransomware attack. This activity is not unexpected.

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Healthcare Under Attack: Building Resilience in the Face of an Aggressive Cyber Threat

MHA Consulting

Healthcare organizations are uniquely vulnerable to hackers and are subject to more than their share of cyberattacks. Related on MHA Consulting: Be Ransomware Resilient: Know How to Operate Manually A Healthcare System Under Attack Last month, the U.S. health care system in American history.”

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

This textbook provides a multitude of case studies each written by academics who are actively teaching and/or have developed curriculum in the fields of crisis, disaster, and/or emergency management with a specific focus on vulnerable populations that are the weakest links in the hazard-risk chain. Reviewer: Irmak Renda-Tanali, D.Sc.,

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Tips for Managing Third-Party Risk in Health Care

Reciprocity

Data breaches against healthcare organizations affected more than 1 million people in 2020. The average total data breach cost in the same year was far higher in the healthcare industry ( $7.13 As one can see, the healthcare industry is one of the most attractive targets for cyber attackers and data thieves.

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Building Resilient Communities in the Face of Extreme Heat

CCEM Strategies

This can create very hazardous conditions, especially for vulnerable populations. The majority of those who lost their lives were part of a vulnerable population - older adults with compromised health who lived alone. Identify and support vulnerable populations. Develop response plans.

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Progress and Lessons Learned Using NFPA 3000 in Augusta, GA

National Fire Protection Association

In 2018, Augusta, Georgia, became the first community to implement NFPA 3000®, Standard for an Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response (ASHER) Program, to address mass casualty event mitigation, planning, response, and recovery. Webber recommends conducting risk-based assessments to better understand and address existing vulnerabilities. “Do

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Healthcare Organizations Leverage PagerDuty Platform and Pro Bono Technical Support to Advance Global Vaccine Equity by Nisha Kadaba

PagerDuty

Building on our program foundation of active listening, cross-sector learning, and collaboration established in our first cohort last spring, this sprint began with a rigorous discovery process to learn about each partner’s digital operations, and drove a comprehensive review of their current incident response frameworks.