NJBIZ: Health Care Providers Need Rx for New Kinds of ‘Viruses’
Given the increasing cyber threat to the health care and public health sector, NJBiz recently spoke with a number of cybersecurity experts about the steps they’re taking to protect patient data.
CloudWave Marketing Director Laura Pursley shared that with the increased use of “smart” devices, the “most critical asset that needs to be protected are the patients. If you focus on securing your systems and network, especially those connected medical devices that could impact human life, then you’re doing what is right for your patients. We help hospitals implement solutions that allow them to comply with best practices, detect threats and respond to any incidents quickly.”
The article also highlights CloudWave’s educational resources. “We believe that every health care cybersecurity strategy needs a strong educational component,” Pursley explained. “Since a high majority of incidents are due to human error, constant education of all departments is crucial. Cybersecurity is not just an IT problem. CloudWave has a tremendous amount of educational resources that we make available, regardless of if you are a client or not. In February, we launched the Cybersecurity Insider Program, a strictly educational community. We host monthly live educational webinars on topics like medical device security, AI, and other cybersecurity topics. This community gets access to threat intelligence usually reserved for our clients, and it includes an annual virtual tabletop exercise. In addition, we’ve put together a Cybersecurity Toolkit for Health Care that gathers resources from [federal agencies] CISA [Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency], DHS [Department of Homeland Security] and others that can be used to train hospital teams.”