The 2025 Horizon Report: Your Roadmap to Cybersecurity Resilience
The healthcare industry is under siege. As we move into 2025, the cybersecurity challenges facing hospitals, health systems, and vendors are growing more complex, more sophisticated, and more frequent. The stakes have never been higher; patient safety, operational continuity, and trust hang in the balance. Cybercriminals are evolving their strategies, leveraging advanced technologies like artificial […]
Choosing the Right MSSP
The “evolving threat landscape” is more than just a ubiquitous cybersecurity term; it represents some of the biggest challenges cybersecurity leaders contend with, especially in healthcare. From increasingly sophisticated and dangerous threat actors, expanding attack surfaces, and competing priorities to budget constraints, fragmented technology, and an often confusing regulatory environment, healthcare cybersecurity is a volatile, […]
How Expertise On Demand Solutions Can Help Cybersecurity Staffing Challenges
Finding IT professionals to fill open positions is reaching critical levels for many organizations. In healthcare, those vacancies can be magnified by new requirements from cyber insurance providers and regulatory bodies. Salary requirements have risen considerably over the past few years, and while remote work options have helped, it has also made it more difficult […]
How to Revolutionize Cybersecurity in Your Organization
Despite continuously integrating innovative cybersecurity upgrades and enhancements, the healthcare industry remains a primary target for cyber attacks and data breaches for a myriad of reasons. A medical facility’s technology environment contains employee and provider information, financial data, as well as a full spectrum of highly sensitive patient information, all of which can command top […]
How To Triage Your Healthcare IT Security Needs
The term “triage” has a similar definition in healthcare cybersecurity and software as it does in a hospital setting, albeit a very different application. Defect triage, also known as bug triage, is a quality assurance process where a team of designated stakeholders (that may include cybersecurity and data loss prevention specialists) systematically test and assess […]
Human Capital Management: Retaining Healthcare Employees
With IT talent shortages reaching record heights, the healthcare industry is under mounting pressure to not only hire high performing technology employees to manage its mission-critical network security and data loss prevention efforts, but also to retain these staff members once they’ve joined the team. Unfortunately, successfully retaining high-performing employees is proving difficult for organizations […]
Entrusting an MSSP With Healthcare IT Assessment
The technology needs of any healthcare organization are constantly changing, forcing administrators to continuously reevaluate whether current systems fully support both patient and process needs. For some healthcare organizations, it’s simply a matter of updating obsolete programs to a more advanced and robust option. However, outdated technology isn’t the only reason medical facilities choose to […]
Solving the #1 Healthcare IT Security Issue: Turnover
As the IT Security candidate shortage in the medical industry continues to grow, healthcare administrators find themselves faced with a second staffing crisis: turnover. As companies in every vertical compete for the same dwindling talent pool, the healthcare segment has had to navigate an upswing in turnover amongst their cybersecurity professionals. It’s a trend that […]
State of Cybersecurity Talent in 2019
Recent reports have confirmed what healthcare directors and HR specialists have already recognized and painfully experienced firsthand throughout 2018: last year’s cybersecurity job market was rife with hiring gaps, transitions, and disruptions. While the past several years have proven challenging for healthcare organizations looking to staff up their internal network security and cybersecurity teams, 2018 […]
Alternative Approach to Cybersecurity Staffing Crisis
IT security within the healthcare industry is currently facing a major staffing crisis. Cybersecurity talent shortages have delivered significant blows throughout virtually every vertical, but the healthcare sector has been hit especially hard. A 2017 report released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services noted that the employment gap within the healthcare vertical […]
