In its first annual healthcare data breach report, Stern Security has critically analyzed over 4,000 data breaches since the Department of Health and Human Services began tracking the information in 2009. Stern Security utilized data from their HealthcareBreaches.com website as well as published information from Health and Human Services to create this comprehensive report. This […]
Healthcare breaches have recently reached a grim milestone. As of June 10th, 2022, the number of Protected Health Information (PHI) records breached has reached 341,995,928. To put in prospective, this number surpasses the United States population which is at 332,759,097 (United States Census Bureau, 2022). It must be noted that these numbers only include reported healthcare […]
Introduction Velocity helped a large hospital system quadruple the speed of vendor risk assessments, increase accuracy of reviews, create a continuous assessment process, and track internal risk using the Center for Internet Security (CIS), NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), and the HIPAA Security Rule. Background The hospital was struggling to manually review hundreds of vendor (business […]