Healthcare Security In 2015: 9 Hotspots

From InformationWeek Healthcare:

Healthcare Security In 2015: 9 Hotspots

The healthcare sector has been under attack for some time. In 2014, despite headlines dominated by JPMorgan Chase, Home Depot, and other retail or financial entities, the healthcare industry accounted for 43% of all major breaches, according to the Ponemon Institute.

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Healthcare organizations have been warned about the consequences of an insecure environment, and the cacophony of cautions grew following the Community Health System breach in August. Still, a frightening number of healthcare providers continue to ignore the alarms from a federal alphabet soup of agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Consider:

• More than 41% of healthcare organizations do not use endpoint encryption, even though approximately one-third of employees work remotely at least once a week, according to Forrester Research.
• Sixty-eight percent of the industry's breaches since 2010 have occurred because files or devices were stolen, the Bitglass 2014 Healthcare Breach Report determined.
• Hacker attacks increased 600% in the first 10 months of 2014 versus the prior year, Websense Security Labs' Carl Leonard told TechNewsWorld.