Healthcare entities struggle with fragmented data across multiple silos. A unified cloud platform can help organizations manage this "data shrapnel" while improving patient outcomes and security, said Anirudh Kannan, CISO advisor for health care and life sciences at Google Cloud.
LLMs may dominate headlines, but enterprises are taking a more measured approach. Sujatha S Iyer, head of AI security at ManageEngine, says the future of AI for many businesses lies not in deploying massive models but in explainable, efficient and compliant systems designed to solve specific problems.
The German federal government is under pressure to withdraw support for a European Union content scanning proposal that critics argue poses large-scale privacy risks. The EU Justice and Home Affairs Council is set to vote Oct. 14 on a regulation called Chat Control.
Benefits provider EyeMed Vision Care has agreed to pay $5 million and improve its security practices to settle class action litigation involving a 2020 phishing breach. The incident has been the subject of previous multimillion dollar settlements and enforcement actions by multiple state regulators.
Bloomberg reported that data protection and ransomware recovery giant Veeam is in advanced talks to buy DSPM and AI security vendor Securiti for $1.8 billion, with an announcement coming as soon as this week. The deal would accelerate Veeam's pivot from backup and disaster recovery to cybersecurity.
Healthcare CISOs must deploy phishing-resistant authentication as threat actors weaponize AI and deepfakes to bypass traditional two-factor methods, creating vulnerabilities across human and non-human identities managing sensitive genomic data, said Jigar Kadakia, CISO at GeneDx.
A network of 13 Catholic hospitals, community health centers and clinics in the Midwest will pay $7.6 million and implement improvements to its data security practices to settle consolidated class action litigation filed in the aftermath of a 2023 hacking incident affecting nearly 900,000 people.
A "Success Stories" marketing campaign by a Delaware nursing home that involved posting photos and names of patients on social media resulted in a $182,000 federal fine. Regulators say the company violated HIPAA rules through the unauthorized disclosure of patients' protected health information.
Are brain waves and similar neural data the next frontier in consumer privacy worries? A trio of U.S. senators have introduced federal legislation aiming to get ahead of risks that such brain-related data could be collected and misused by tech firms, data brokers, government agencies and others.
An unencrypted database containing nearly 150,000 patient records of a California provider of home health and palliative care services was left exposed on the internet, said a cybersecurity researcher who discovered the unsecured data cache. Why does this keep happening in the healthcare sector?
Bayhealth Medical Center in Delaware - an alleged victim of a 2024 hack by the "notorious" and prolific ransomware gang Rhysida that resulted in a breach affecting nearly a half-million people - has agreed to a preliminary settlement in a proposed class action lawsuit stemming from the incident.
From discussions on health data explosion to the keynote on AI deployment, the Healthcare Security Summit: New York offered practical strategies to manage data risks, ensure continuity of patient care and prepare for a regulatory landscape that is rapidly reshaping cybersecurity priorities.
With ransomware gang Nova threatening to leak patient data on the darkweb, a Dutch laboratory that performs cervical cancer tests for a government screening program is mum about the ransom negotiations, but it says the cyberattack in July has affected 941,000 patients.
The European Union General Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea by a French politician to annul the legal framework underpinning commercial data flows across the Atlantic, rejecting claims that a U.S. intelligence agency oversight body is not independent of the federal government.
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