BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

Over the weekend of September 26th, major healthcare provider Universal Health Services experienced a ransomware attack resulting in widespread computer systems failures. Without access to their digital databases, doctors and nurses were...

As cases of COVID-19 have grown, a lack of capacity has led governments to erect temporary hospitals in our nation’s stadiums, parks, and convention centers.

Cyber hackers are an opportune group of people, hunting like predators and shifting their approach as needed. And now, they’re leveraging the concern and — in some cases — hysteria about the coronavirus outbreak to advance their nefarious...

Cybersecurity is a priority for many organizations these days, but one sector of particular concern is healthcare.

Healthcare is under attack. Hospitals, doctors’ networks, insurance companies, and others are prime targets for hackers due to the valuable protected health information (PHI) they store and the vital role they play in our nation’s critical...

If you’re involved in a healthcare-based organization, you’ve likely noticed the push for stronger vendor security and vendor risk management (VRM) practices. There are a few reasons for this.

There have been a number of large security breaches in healthcare over recent years. Indeed, 89% of healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach in the past three years, and more than 32 million people had their protected health...

Today BitSight released a new BitSight Insights Report. Our objective in publishing these reports is to share findings from analysis conducted on the terabytes of security-incident data we gather on a daily basis. Due to our unique...

Healthcare security and how updated HIPAA/HITECH Act regulations are changing the nature of risk in that industry are hot topics right now. "The rules have made it easier for organizations to have penalties levied against them because of...