Healthcare facilities face unique security challenges. Digitized healthcare records are valuable to criminals and facilities are still learning how to protect them, according to an article on the CSO Online website.
According to the most recent Healthcare Breach Report from Bitglass, 68 percent of all healthcare data breaches since 2010 were due to device theft or loss.
Healthcare organizations need to have processes in place so that they would quickly learn about the loss, wipe the data remotely, and provision a replacement laptop so that the clinician could go back to work, the article said.
Healthcare organizations also have specialized medical equipment that could pose particular security challenges. Medical devices are closed systems, that cannot be easily scanned for malware.
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