June 15, 2021
Managing the Risk of a Ransomware Attack
By Leslie Weinstein, HITRUST Solutions Director What Is a Ransomware Attack? The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) defines ransomware as “a form of...
February 26, 2021
Getting to the Basics – What a critical infrastructure breach can teach all of us.
By Jason Taule, Chief Information Security Officer & Vice President of Standards What do you do for a living? We all get asked this...
April 21, 2017
HITRUST CyberAid – How It Works
Written by HITRUST Independent Security Journalist Sean Martin. Since HITRUST and Trend Micro first started delivering (and writing about) the HITRUST CyberAid initiative back...
October 12, 2017
Look! Nothing up My Sleeve! Introducing the HITRUST CTX Deceptive Program
Written by HITRUST Independent Security Journalist Sean Martin. Back in 2015, Gartner’s Lawrence Pingree projected that, by 2018, 10% of enterprises will use deception...
November 29, 2017
Learning from the Equifax Breach: Lessons for Healthcare Leadership
A Tipping Point in Cybersecurity Written by Ali Pabrai, MSEE, CISSP (ISSAP, ISSMP), CCSFP, Member (FBI) InfraGard & HITRUST CSF Assessor Council. Executive Summary...
December 13, 2017
Better Healthcare to be Driven by Standardization of Cyber Risk Management at the State Level
Written by HITRUST Independent Security Journalist Sean Martin. Earlier this year, the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), in conjunction with the New York State Department of...
July 21, 2017
Managing the Costs of Cybersecurity Insurance by Measuring and Managing Risk with a Standards Framework
By Pamela Arora, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Children’s Health Cybersecurity insurance should not be a substitute for having effective cybersecurity...
August 4, 2017
WannaCry Post Mortem: Early Warning Indicators and Lessons Learned for the Healthcare Industry
Written by HITRUST Independent Security Journalist Sean Martin. As the saying goes, “those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Some...
September 22, 2017
Asymmetric Attacks Mandate Credible Cybersecurity Framework
Written by Ali Pabrai, MSEE, CISSP (ISSAP, ISSMP), CCSFP is a Member of (FBI) InfraGard & HITRUST CSF Assessor Council. A single system or...
April 5, 2018
Looking Back One Year Ago, We May Still WannaCry
Written by Elie Nasrallah, CISSP, Director – Cyber Security Strategy at HITRUST Research from Trend Micro and HITRUST points to the healthcare industry continuing...
July 21, 2016
Prescriptive Guidance for All Healthcare Organizations Involved in Precision Medicine
Written by HITRUST Independent Security Journalist Sean Martin. In May 2016, the White House released an important document, “Precision Medicine Initiative: Data Security Policy...
August 2, 2016
Ransomware is a Chronic Superbug Disease
Written by HITRUST Independent Security Journalist Sean Martin. Look out, healthcare organizations: Ransomware is infecting your facilities. It’s your IT and other data systems...