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Healthcare IT Institute | June 12th | Pasadena, CA

By Fortified Health SecurityIn EventsPosted

Healthcare organizations are facing increased cyberattacks, cyber insurance changes, and regulatory obligations that have stressed and strained their IT teams. Despite the desire to implement more robust cybersecurity, budgets are in decline or restricted. However, many healthcare organizations are unaware of, or unable to access, several cybersecurity funding opportunities, including...

Healthcare IT Institute | June 11th | Pasadena, CA

By Fortified Health SecurityIn EventsPosted

The healthcare cybersecurity landscape has changed dramatically over the past two years. Executive and IT teams now face new hurdles entering 2023. Regulatory and cyber insurance requirements are advancing the need for a higher level of cybersecurity planning, execution, and reporting. In response, many organizations are undergoing a “healthcare cybersecurity...

Webinar | May 31st | 3pm ET

By Fortified Health SecurityIn EventsPosted

Join us for session two of our three-part series, where you’ll get a comprehensive view of attack surface management in healthcare. Learn what Vulnerability Threat Monitoring (VTM) entails, and why it’s so critical to maintaining a successful cybersecurity program. In this educational series, Fortified’s Senior Director of Threat Assessment Operations,...

Single sign-on vs multi-factor authentication: Do you know the difference?

By Aaron PriceIn BlogPosted

A disheartening reality is that cyberattacks targeting healthcare and other critical industries are on the rise, making it more important than ever for organizations to implement thorough security measures. This is where single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) come in. By combining these tools, healthcare organizations can protect themselves...

MUSE Inspire | June 8th | Denver, CO

By Fortified Health SecurityIn EventsPosted

Healthcare providers accounted for 70% of all cybersecurity incidents in 2022, representing the majority of breaches reported, according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) data breach portal. The reality for healthcare cybersecurity teams is not if an attack will happen, but rather when it will happen.   Join Fortified’s...

Fortified Roundtable | May 11th | 2 PM CT

By Fortified Health SecurityIn EventsPosted

Part of raising security awareness and improving your cybersecurity posture in healthcare is creating trusted peer relationships. Our roundtables facilitate this by giving you an opportunity to meet with your peers from other healthcare organizations to discuss challenges, ideas, and solutions. The format is a 60-minute web conference with healthcare...

HCP ’23 | May 9th | Houston, TX

By Fortified Health SecurityIn EventsPosted

Join Fortified’s Russell Teague, VP Advisory Services, and Tim Ramsey, Director of Threat Operations, for Health Connect Partners 2023 Spring Hospital Technology Conference educational session, “IR Program Maturity: How to Prepare for the Worst Day Ever” on Tuesday, May 9th from 11am – 12pm CT. This session will help you...

HCP ’23 | May 8th | Houston, TX

By Fortified Health SecurityIn EventsPosted

Join us at Health Connect Partners’ 2023 Spring Hospital Technology Conference on Monday, May 8th from 12pm – 4pm CT. Stop by booth #1309 to see firsthand how Fortified Central Command is simplifying cybersecurity and enter for a chance to win prizes! MORE INFO

CHIME | May 17th | Live webinar

By Fortified Health SecurityIn EventsPosted

Join Fortified’s T.J. Ramsey, Director, Threat Operations, for CHIME's live webinar, "Current Threats and Best Practices You Should Follow to Keep Your Data Safe" on Wednesday, May 17th from 2pm – 3pm EST. Learn how Fortified is working alongside healthcare organizations to address the latest threats, prioritize and implement solutions,...

Take control of your healthcare security with threat hunting

By Jake BiceIn BlogPosted

What is threat hunting? Similar to how early detection and prevention are crucial to maintaining patient health, threat hunting plays a critical role in identifying potential cyber threats and breaches before they occur. Within a Security Operations Center (SOC), threat hunters systematically search through an organization's network, system, and data...

Fortified Health Security Unveils Fortified Central Command

By Fortified Health SecurityIn Press ReleasesPosted

Unified service delivery platform provides better operational efficiencies and comparative analytics, transforming the MSSP relationship. FRANKLIN, Tenn. – April 25, 2023 – Fortified Health Security (Fortified), a Best in KLAS managed security services provider (MSSP) to the healthcare industry, today announced the launch of Fortified Central Command, which simplifies the...

Fortified Roundtable | April 13th | 2 PM CT

By Fortified Health SecurityIn EventsPosted

Part of raising security awareness and improving your cybersescurity posture in healthcare is creating trusted peer relationships. Our roundtables facilitate this by giving you an opportunity to meet with your peers from other healthcare organizations to discuss challenges, ideas, and solutions. The format is a 60-minute web conference with healthcare...

HIMSS | April 17th – 21st | Chicago

By Fortified Health SecurityIn EventsPosted

Join us at kiosk 4309-10, April 17th - 21st! Learn how Fortified is working alongside healthcare organizations to address the latest threats, prioritize and implement solutions, and simplify the management of healthcare cybersecurity. Join Fortified’s Russell Teague, VP Advisory Services, and Ryan Quigg, Regional VP West, at the 2023 HIMSS...

Can a decryption key help you avoid a ransom?

By TJ RamseyIn BlogPosted

Network security admins all have the same fear - Friday afternoon at about 4:30pm, tech support gets a call that a computer is acting strange with files and folders not working properly. Their response to the call reveals a ransom note! But before you consider paying a ransom for a...

Fortified Health Security’s Senior VISO Testifies Before the U.S. Senate’s Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

By Fortified Health SecurityIn Press ReleasesPosted

Kate Pierce, Fortified Health Security’s Senior Virtual Information Security Officer & Executive Director of Subsidy testified before the U.S. Senate’s Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday, March 16. The hearing focused on the topic “In Need of a Checkup: Examining the Cybersecurity Risks to the Healthcare Sector.” Having...

5 Healthcare cybersecurity tips for apps and mobile devices

By Fortified Health SecurityIn BlogPosted

Every healthcare organization, regardless of the devices used, faces the risk of cybersecurity attacks. However, the use of mobile devices and apps can bring the risk of a cyber-attack to another level. Apps and mobile devices are highly effective, affordable, and convenient ways for medical facilities to manage a diverse...

THIMA | March 27th, 3:15pm CT | Franklin, TN

By Amanda HeckmanIn EventsPosted

Cybersecurity threats are constantly evolving and can feel overwhelming to keep up with and stay ahead of. Join Fortified’s Tim (T.J.) Ramsey, Director, Threat Operations, at the 2023 THIMA Annual Meeting in Franklin, TN on Monday, March 27th from 3:15pm CT – 4pm CT to learn about Current Threats and...

Fortified Roundtable | March 16th | 2 PM CT

By Amanda HeckmanIn EventsPosted

Part of raising security awareness and improving your cybersescurity posture in healthcare is creating trusted peer relationships. Our roundtables facilitate this by giving you an opportunity to meet with your peers from other healthcare organizations to discuss challenges, ideas, and solutions. The format is a 60-minute web conference with healthcare...

ViVE | March 26th – 29th | Nashville

By Amanda HeckmanIn EventsPosted

While providers hire MSSPs to solve for human capital limitations, all too often the systems for communicating with and managing MSSPs requires a significant time investment and builds on alert fatigue At Fortified, we’ve developed a solution to this communication challenge and we’re bringing it to ViVE on March 26th...

Fortified Roundtable | February 23rd | 2 PM CT

By Amanda HeckmanIn EventsPosted

Part of raising security awareness and improving your cybersescurity posture in healthcare is creating trusted peer relationships. Our roundtables facilitate this by giving you an opportunity to meet with your peers from other healthcare organizations to discuss challenges, ideas, and solutions. The format is a 60-minute web conference with healthcare...

2022 Mid-year Horizon Report

By Robert PullinsIn Horizon ReportsPosted

2022 Mid-year Horizon Report The State of Cybersecurity in Healthcare What we cover in the latest report: Penetration Testing Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ Machine Learning (ML) Detection and Response Technologies Metrics: Tracking Data that Affects Patient Outcomes MITRE ATT&CK Incident Response Download

3 things you should add to your healthcare Vulnerability Threat Management

By TJ RamseyIn BlogPosted

As we head into the final days of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, one key theme has emerged in our blog series; healthcare organizations have many options available to help combat cyberattacks, and it can become daunting to select which solutions provide the best fit for your organization. Considering integrations and intelligence...

5 Steps to Improve Cybersecurity on Your Connected Medical Devices 

By Fortified Health SecurityIn BlogPosted

Patient care depends on reliable access to medical devices, so hospital staff need to keep an accurate inventory of this equipment. However, since more devices are connected to hospital networks than ever before, there is an increased risk of cyberattacks. This guide will break down some of the ways that...

9 Tricks Spammers Use to Compromise Your System

By Fortified Health SecurityIn BlogPosted

Today's cybersecurity tools can help stop cybercriminals; however, many spammers find creative ways to get around safeguards. Spammers add another layer of risk to healthcare organizations, so it's important that all employees know how to spot these cybersecurity threats. Here are some of the most common tricks spammers may use...

Should You Build or Buy SOC Operations? Partnering with an MSSP For Network Security

By Fortified Health SecurityIn BlogPosted

Every organization has unique cyber security risks. You can protect your data from external threats by assessing these risks and creating a security plan. Generally, this process involves either building an internal Security Operations Center (SOC) or partnering with a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP). What Factors Are Involved with...

Take This Step to Level Up Your Cybersecurity Program

By TJ RamseyIn BlogPosted

Penetration testing, or pentesting as it’s often called, is one of the fundamental building blocks for a cybersecurity program. Pentesting provides vital information about an organization’s cybersecurity posture and seeks to uncover previously undiscovered vulnerabilities. It also demonstrates the impact of previously known vulnerabilities for more accurate risk assessment. Unfortunately,...

The Next Big Challenge in Healthcare Is Here. Are You Prepared?

By Melissa AdamsIn BlogPosted

Third-Party Risk Management, or TPRM, is a growing concern for healthcare organizations. According to the 2022 Ponemon Industry Report, 63% of respondents stated that while cybersecurity incidents involving third parties are increasing, they feel ineffective at controlling third-party risk. Additionally, 55% of healthcare organizations had experienced a data breach in...

How to Educate Multiple Generations on Security Risks and Protocols

By Fortified Health SecurityIn BlogPosted

Healthcare employees are the backbone of daily operations. When interacting with patients and handling ePHI, your employees can make or break your cybersecurity strategy. This is why cybersecurity awareness training and education should be on your priority list. But security awareness training isn’t necessarily a one-size-fits-all approach. Currently four main...

Understanding SIEM, MDR, and XDR

By Preston DurenIn BlogPosted

A Guide to Cybersecurity Detection and Response New cybersecurity innovations continue to fill the market each year as organizations attempt to stay ahead of threat actors. The challenge is sifting through all the options to find the solutions that best fit your organization’s needs. While this is not a new...

Can Expertise on-Demand solutions help your cybersecurity staffing challenges?

By Nick CieroIn BlogPosted

Strategies for addressing healthcare IT cybersecurity organizational resourcing Finding IT professionals to fill open positions is reaching critical levels for many organizations. In fact, 63% of respondents to an ISACA report shared they had unfilled cybersecurity positions. Almost the same percentage--62%--stated their team was understaffed, taking more than six months...

Four Easy Ways to Protect Yourself Online

By William CrankIn BlogPosted

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), when government and the private sector work together to develop ways that businesses can help their workers and customers keep their digital data safe. It’s an excellent time for healthcare stakeholders to look at the privacy and security best practices they should employ....

2022 Horizon Report

By Fortified Health SecurityIn Horizon ReportsPosted

2022 Horizon ReportThe State of Cybersecurity in Healthcare What we cover in the latest report 2021 data breach and industry trends for healthcare year in review Market dynamics including Cyber InsuranceGovernment Regulatory Changes Disruptions to Patient Care Identity and Access A look back on Fortified's 2021 predictions Download