Why Health Care Providers Need a Dedicated Cybersecurity Team

New study shows progress, illuminates continued trouble spots The results of this year’s HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey indicate health care provider organizations are taking greater than anticipated steps to enhance their cybersecurity programs. Key findings among the organizations surveyed include: 75 percent have some type of insider threat management program. 85 percent conduct a risk assessment…

Will Your Firm Be the Next One Hit by a DDoS Attack?

New trends in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are emerging every day. Are you in the know? DDoS attacks can be carried out by a variety of criminals, ranging from individual hackers to organized crime rings and government agencies. In general, however, the crooks’ methods are the same: Use multiple compromised computer systems to attack a…

What Everyone (Yes, Everyone!) Needs to Know about the Newly Discovered Wi-Fi Weakness

When the world learned of the WPA2 Wi-Fi vulnerability, some shrugged it off as “just another security flaw.” Here’s why ignoring this one is a big mistake. Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) is the current industry standard. That’s right, the standard. In other words, it’s everywhere. WPA2 networks, in fact, are what most of our…