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Ransomware and Healthcare Payers: What Can You Do to Protect Yourself

Pure Storage

Unfortunately, even the most sophisticated organizations that deploy comprehensive hardware and software solutions are vulnerable. If a ransomware event happens, payer organizations can’t process authorizations, check eligibility for benefits, and often cannot connect with their providers or members.

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School Security & Active Shooter Interdiction: A Q&A With Vince Riden

Security Industry Association

One of SIA’s top advocacy priorities and an issue area that impacts nearly all of us to some degree is that of school safety and security. What is your background in the security industry, and how did you come to be involved in school security specifically?

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World Backup Day: Four Data Protection Best Practices to Know

Pure Storage

It has been republished with permission from the author. They will often try to discover cybersecurity insurance limits, critical operations your organization is running, and where and to whom services are provided, all in an effort to understand where an attack can do the worst damage.

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Do Cyber Risks Lurk in Your Business Ecosystem?

NexusTek

If you aren’t already scrutinizing the security postures of third parties in your ecosystem (e.g., Hackers are always thinking about new ways to enter their targets’ IT environments, always seeking out entryways that are poorly secured. Communicate your security expectations to third parties.

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How to Create a Data Breach Response Team

Pure Storage

A key part of preparing for a security event is ensuring you have the people and the technology you need to help you recover as quickly as possible. The expertise of a legal counsel on your emergency response team is invaluable during a security event. Information Security (InfoSec). Information Technology (IT).

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

The increasing vulnerability and dwindling redundancy of life-support systems will aggravate the effect of proliferating failure among critical infrastructure networks. Security’ involves protection against major threats, such as terrorist activity. Preamble 1.1 Unplanned mass migrations will occur.

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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. The organization was forced to shut down most of its networks, interrupting prescription payments and authorizations. health care system in American history.” Once the data is gone, it’s gone.