Preparing for and Fighting Cybersecurity Attacks in the Healthcare Industry with Jordan Mauriello Critical Start

Jordan Mauriello is the Chief Security Officer at Critical Start and points out the cybersecurity challenges that healthcare organizations, hospitals, individual doctors' offices, and private practices face to protect against cyberattacks. With an eye to how data is stored, Critical Start is looking to reduce opportunities for cybercriminals while, at the same time, planning for a response to a cyberattack. Jordan explains, "The amount of change that is happening in healthcare actually needs a little bit of a boost. There are changes that have been made, but most healthcare is governed when it comes to cybersecurity by HIPAA. Most of your listeners are familiar with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which was formed in 1996. And the last time we had a significant change to HIPAA was in 2013. And so when we see the regulatory requirements lagging almost a decade behind what we see here, there's actually quite a bit of change that needs to happen still in healthcare." "I think the biggest blind spots are still understanding the potential impacts. We've seen hospitals kind of gain notoriety from attacks in the last couple of years. And it's because they have been slower to evolve. Cybercriminals are not slow to evolve. They're always looking for the fastest, most profitable way to monetize a cyberattack. Because they're all about money. It's much different than it was when we saw the hacking movies that came out 20 years ago." @CriticalStart #HospitalCybersecurity #Cybersecurity #ManagedDetectionandResponse #Cybercriminals #Cyberattack #HIPAA CriticalStart.com Download the transcript here