The cyberattack on Change Healthcare shows systemic risk in healthcare is real—where even brief disruptions can mean life-threatening delays in treatment, lost medication access, and diverted emergency care.
In September of 2017, we founded Censinet with a big vision and mission: Take the risk out of healthcare by becoming the “trusted network” for third-party vendor risk management. in U.S. healthcare by 2022. Pretty big mission -- but is third-party...
The security risk posed by third-party healthcare vendors keeps Aaron Miri up at night. Miri is the CIO of Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin and UT Health Austin and an evangelist for better healthcare vendor risk management...
With experience in sysadmin functions, malicious bad actors are taking advantage of common misconfigurations in network security, probing defenses, and adapting to what is revealed. Lately it has been observed that human adversaries are sometimes...
Vendor cybersecurity questionnaires have straightforward goals: Get on the same page regarding risk, work together to address concerns, and finish out the procurement process. Risk assessments, after all, are time-consuming and therefore costly...
Today, the biggest risks to patient care come from disruptions or downtime to clinical applications and medical devices caused by cyberattacks such as data breaches and ransomware. The Department of Health andHuman Services Office for Civil Rights...
Explore key strategies shared at CHIME College Live on transforming vendor risk management for healthcare, with insights from leading CIOs on enhancing digital health security.
The healthcare industry has invested more on security programs and tools over the last 10 years. However, as a percentage of IT budgets, health systems are spending a lot less on protecting themselves than other industries. Unfortunately, the...
In the evolving cybersecurity industry, one of the biggest takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic is how fragile supply chains are in healthcare. Over the last two years, healthcare leaders have struggled with the challenges of preparedness...
I recently had the honor of joining Gary Berman and three of my fellow veterans (and fellow cybersecurity professionals) - Robert Ungemach, Tyler Cohen-Wood, and Max Justice - for a Veterans Day podcast on LinkedIn titled Veterans & Cybersecurity...
A new partnership promises to reduce the effort required for healthcare providers to perform security assessments and help technology vendors focus on dealing with new security issues through a common security preparedness rating system for their...
The Apache Log4j 2 utility is a commonly used service component for logging requests for audit and review purposes. Log4J, written in Java, supports many projects, including multiple cloud services and various open-source and commercial enterprise...
Explore how healthcare organizations use Censinet to transform assessments into prioritized action and operational resilience.