2023年6月16日

强化卫生安全的凯特·皮尔斯在挑战小医疗实体Marianne Kolbasuk麦基(HealthInfoSec) 6月16日,2023年凯特·皮尔斯虚拟信息安全官,强化卫生安全网络犯罪越来越多地掠夺小医院,经常在农村地区,知道安全防御这些设施往往要弱于那些规模较大的机构。伊利诺斯州农村医疗系统,关闭今天表示,关闭部分是由于从2021年ransomware事件影响,人员短缺。网络安全官和前长期CIO和凯特•皮尔斯CISO 25-bed社区医院在佛蒙特州,说,“成为真正具有挑战性的这些小设备能够跟上。”Small facilities face two major obstacles: finding, developing and retaining talent to keep up with the ever-growing cyberthreats and being prepared to respond to attacks, Pierce said in an interview with Information Security Media Group. "Rural facilities aren't as robust as larger facilities, or they haven't properly exercised their ability to recover through their incident response plans," said Pierce, who now works as a virtual information security officer at Fortified Health Security. "They just don't have the staffing to double down on it." In this interview with Information Security Media Group, Pierce also discussed: The wide, regional impact when cyberattacks hit rural hospitals and larger affiliated institutions; Advice to CIOs and CISOs of small and rural hospitals. Pierce has over two decades of experience in healthcare. She focuses on small, rural and not-for-profit healthcare organizations. Prior to joining Fortified Health, Pierce was longtime CIO and CISO at North Country Hospital in Vermont.