Healthcare Data Privacy: What Industry Signals Reveal About Deeper Cybersecurity Risk
During Data Privacy Week, healthcare leaders have the chance to go beyond awareness messaging. They can closely examine how patient data is accessed, shared, and protected. Healthcare data privacy often focuses on compliance through policies, training, and regulations. However, the real risk comes from how data flows across systems, vendors, and people in the interconnected […]
2026 Horizon Report: The New Reality of Healthcare Cybersecurity
Healthcare cybersecurity has entered a new phase. The era of isolated, headline-grabbing mega-breaches is giving way to something more demanding and more dangerous: constant disruption. In 2025, healthcare organizations experienced significantly more cyber incidents than the year before, yet those breaches affected fewer patient records overall. On the surface, that might sound like progress. In […]
CISO Brief: 7 Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026
In 2026, healthcare cybersecurity is shifting from reacting to crises toward building resilience that endures. Innovation, regulation, and collaboration are accelerating, and healthcare leaders across the sector are meeting this moment with renewed clarity and purpose. These seven healthcare cybersecurity predictions reflect how our industry is defending smarter, working together more intentionally, and rethinking what […]
CISO Brief: A Look Back at Healthcare Cybersecurity in 2025, A Year Defined by Disruption
As 2025 comes to a close, it’s impossible not to view the year through a wide-angle lens. Healthcare cybersecurity in 2025 did not follow a clean, predictable arc. Instead, it delivered a series of sharp turns, unexpected pivots, and both hard-earned wins and hard-learned lessons. If 2024 felt volatile, 2025 reaffirmed that volatility is now the default operating […]
When Cyber Threats Hit Rural Hospitals: Lessons from the Front Lines
A savvy CEO leads a rural hospital through a cybersecurity crisis Cybersecurity attacks on rural hospitals are no longer a question of “if,” but “when.” For Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor, Maine, that moment came during Chrissi Maguire’s tenure as CEO. A longtime financial and operational leader turned hospital chief, Maguire had to […]
CISO Brief: October 2025 Cybersecurity Threat Recap & Insight
October delivered two wake-up calls for healthcare cybersecurity leaders: a critical WSUS remote-code execution flaw that exposed update-chain integrity and a major AWS US-EAST-1 outage that disrupted global services for hours. Together, they underscored a single truth—even trusted infrastructure and cloud providers can become a single point of failure. This month’s CISO Brief for October […]
How to Make Third-Party Risk Manageable
A new Fortified webinar, “Make Third-Party Risk Manageable,” will help you take steps to protect your organization from the security threats posed by vendors. This informative webinar is hosted by Melissa Adams, Fortified’s Director of Third-Party Risk Management, and Jared Michaels, Principal Solutions Architect. Some of the largest healthcare breaches in recent years have involved […]
Lessons from the Front Lines: The Perspective of a Cyberattack from the Nursing Floor
A longtime nurse has seen the impact of cyberattacks up close and personal. Don Neal is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) with nearly 50 years of healthcare experience. As a self-described “old-timer,” he experienced the shift to healthcare technology firsthand, from using electronic charting to switching to automated blood pressure machines. While he says […]
Lessons From the Front Lines: How One Hospital Survived 30 Days Offline
For healthcare leaders, there’s no good time for a cyberattack, but they’re especially aggravating when they hit while you’re on vacation. That’s what happened to Katrina Brown, chief nursing officer of Providence Hospital in Mobile, Alabama, when the EMR system and other software went down while she was in Hawaii. The Response Strategy: Taking Quick […]
5 Ways to Strengthen the Cyber Conversation with CFOs
Cybersecurity isn’t just a technical conversation anymore; it’s a financial one. In healthcare, the cost of cyber risk is measured not only in terms of breached records or downtime, but also in canceled procedures, delayed reimbursements, and long-term reputational damage. When patient safety and solvency are both at stake, CISOs and CFOs must operate as […]