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Cybersecurity Best Practices for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare organizations are facing increasing cybersecurity risks due to digitization. Cyberattacks can disrupt operations and even prove fatal for patients. Cybercriminals are increasingly sophisticated and well-funded. Healthcare organizations need adequate technology and controls in place to protect patient data and organizational operations. Patient health information is valuable to cybercriminals and can be used for identity theft, fraud, and other crimes. Healthcare organizations need to be ...

By SAI360|2025-04-28T02:20:25+00:00May 8th, 2023|Healthcare GRC, IT Risk & Cybersecurity|

Healthcare Organizations Must Do More to Protect Patient Data from Breaches

Healthcare data breaches are on the rise. In March 2023, there were 63 healthcare data security breaches each impacting more than 500 patients reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR). For comparison, February 2023 had 43 and January had 40, reports HIPAA Journal. This is a 46 percent increase from February, nearly seven percent more than the 12-month average, ...

By SAI360|2025-04-28T02:20:19+00:00May 1st, 2023|Compliance, Healthcare GRC, IT Risk & Cybersecurity|

Risk and Compliance Trends: Hot Topics at HCCA

We thought we’d analyze the topics, keynotes, and speaking tracks at the Health Care Compliance Association's (HCCA) 27th Annual Compliance Institute in Anaheim, California this week. The word cloud below—which we created off the speaking tracks at the conference—shows the most common topics are HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance, data privacy and security, employee training, and organizational culture. Each of these ...

By SAI360|2025-04-28T02:17:32+00:00April 24th, 2023|Compliance, Healthcare GRC|

Smart Cyber Defenses Demand a Strategic Approach and Recognized Best Practices (PDF)

Thank you for your interest in the Smart Cyber Defense Whitepaper. Download Healthcare executives are facing significant cybersecurity challenges. This is due to the highly digitized industry landscape. And healthcare’s larger attack surface compared to other industries. In the meantime, cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and strategic. These often involve organized criminals and cyber gangs that are highly trained, well-funded, and sometimes even protected by ...

By SAI360|2025-05-07T17:13:38+00:00April 11th, 2023|Governance, Risk & Compliance: GRC, Healthcare GRC, IT Risk & Cybersecurity|

Watch Navigating the Critical Challenges of IT Risk in Healthcare (Video)

In this webinar, our expert discusses how to provide evidence that a Compliance Program is being effective in reducing unwanted events or circumstances that could give rise to liabilities.

By SAI360|2023-03-21T11:49:43+00:00March 21st, 2023|Compliance, IT Risk & Cybersecurity, SAI360|

5 Tips to Make Cyber Security in Australia a Business Priority

With over 200 reported cyber incidents every day, Australia is known as one of the most hacked countries in the world. Cyber security in Australia is very much needed. Australia's federal government recently issued the Enforcement Act with harsh penalties to incentivize businesses to improve privacy and data security measures. Penalties for severe and repeated interferences with privacy increased from 2.2 million to 50 million ...

By SAI360|2025-04-28T02:13:28+00:00March 14th, 2023|IT Risk & Cybersecurity|

Focus on Fundamentals for IT Security and Risk Management

Security and risk management (SRM) leaders are challenged today by the demands of their positions and expectations from stakeholders. Customers, regulators, auditors, and senior management want different things from SRM leaders. Identifying the processes and services that will demonstrate the value and communicate metrics and information sought by stakeholders is also difficult. Meanwhile, SRM leaders face regulatory requirements that are either new or continuously changing. ...

By SAI360|2025-04-28T02:13:12+00:00March 9th, 2023|Governance, Risk & Compliance: GRC, IT Risk & Cybersecurity|

The Power Behind Integrating Vendor Risk, Cybersecurity and Business Resilience

By removing silos and connecting risk management with cybersecurity and business continuity, organizations can develop the cyber resilience needed to meet the increasing threats of cyber disruption.

By SAI360|2025-04-28T02:02:36+00:00February 28th, 2023|Business Continuity, Business Resilience, Governance, Risk & Compliance: GRC, IT Risk & Cybersecurity, Third-Party and Vendor Risk|