Stolen Medical Records can bring $50 Apiece on the Underground Market
$50 for your Stolen Protected Health Information (PHI)
Healthcare Provider Must Improve Security
Your stolen medical records can bring cyber criminals $50 apiece on the underground market. What's worse, the frequency and magnitude of healthcare data breaches involving electronic health records is increasing.
These are some of the shocking statistics. Between September 2011 and November 2011, a government benefits program suffered the theft of EHRs of 4.9 million military personnel, the health information of 4 million patients of a reputable West Coast healthcare system were stolen electronically and a major academic medical center inadvertently disclosed the EHRs of 20,000 of its patients. On average, the Ponemon Institute which conducts independent research on privacy, data protection and information security policy in it's research found that health organizations have experienced four data breach incidents over the past two years each.
"Healthcare is one of the most-breached industries," says Dr. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of Ponemon Institute. "Healthcare providers and supporting organizations don't currently have sufficient security and privacy budgets, including adequate processes and resources, to protect sensitive patient data."
Next time you are visiting your Doctor observe carefully how your Health Information is handled by the Doctor and staff ask questions.
Computer Systems Support & Design performs security assessments for medical healthcare providers in Fairfield County, CT.
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Keep Spam and Internet Threats Off Your Network
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Internet threats come in many forms. Many enter your network through email. However, a growing number of threats come from websites that host malicious software. Productivity is diminished as employees spend time sifting through spam or browsing through non-work-related websites. Internet bandwidth and email server space are wasted on unnecessary file transfer and storage.
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Figure 1. How the Cisco Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliance/service protects your business and employees from Internet threats, malware and malicious e-mail threats
