Small Practices Having a Hard Time With Cybersecurity Best Practices
Cybersecurity best practices are what the industry has found, with trial and error, to be the best way to keep healthcare data secure. However, implementing these practices can be a… Read more »
Hackers Are Attacking our Practice! Quick! Someone Do a Risk Assessment!
Once hackers are already attacking your practice, it’s too late to do your Risk Assessment. You need to do this beforehand to prevent the hacker attack in the first place!
Why Are Hackers Targeting Your Computer? What Do They Want?
One of the questions we hear a lot goes something like, why are hackers targeting my computer or network? What do they want? The main reason is usually financial, they… Read more »
Case Study – Simple Passwords Lead to a $100,000 HIPAA Violations
Passwords are the primary method we have for defending our sensitive data. We use them on our mobile devices, our computers, online accounts such as Facebook, banking, Amazon, and also… Read more »
Ransomware Has Changed Robberies… Robberies Then and Now
In the old days, a bank robber would break in and demand the key to the vault. Now, we beg to get the key from the hacker who used ransomware… Read more »
5 Very Real Effects of Small Practice Cyber Attacks
Cyber attacks are becoming more and more common as we put more and more data online. The value of this data has increased and attackers know they have a low… Read more »
Case Study – Attesting Without Performing a Risk Assessment is a Crime
The goal of the HITECH Act was to encourage physicians and hospitals to move to electronic health records (EHR). HITECH used an incentive of monetary payments made to help incentivize… Read more »
HIPAA Audits Aren’t a Myth. They Are REAL!
A lot of practices have never seen an audit or even know anyone who has. It’s always a friend of a friend. Because of that, they don’t think they exist…. Read more »
Ransomware Attacks Have Hit 40% of Healthcare Organizations
In 2017, the WannaCry ransomware was released in the wild. It wreaked havoc around the world due to a previously unknown vulnerability. This vulnerability was actually found and exploited by… Read more »