Recently, Feinstein Institute, a research institution, agreed to pay $3.9 million for a HIPAA settlement; after a 2012 OCR health data breach investigation. A costly expense that could have been avoided if the institution had set up a holistic information security posture to cover all their bases.
When you think about the recent ransomware incident at the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, where they had to pay hackers over $17,000 to regain access to patients’ medical records and control over their systems; you get a really good look at what it means to think of security as secondary to your organization’s operations. A proactive and holistic information security posture is fundamental to protect your data, but also to avoid disruption in your day to day operations…