The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration released a report Wednesday calling for improved transparency into high-risk artificial intelligence systems, as well as independent audits that can help hold AI developers accountable.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has huge potential to transform healthcare for the better, but given AI’s unbridled adoption across the industry in just the past year alone, healthcare organizations must begin to actively manage the risks that AI presents to cybersecurity and patient safety. Based on conversations with...
‘Next-generation’ GRC professionals now play a pivotal role in guiding executive decisions, helping the Board understand and set cybersecurity risk tolerance levels, and working with the frontline business to decide which risks should be remediated, mitigated, or even accepted. This business-focused approach...
The 2024 Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study — a collaboration between Censinet, KLAS, the American Hospital Association, Health-ISAC, and the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council — provides an overview on the state of healthcare cybersecurity preparedness, maturity, and resiliency. It...
As ransomware continues to threaten care operations at hospitals and health systems across the country, managing enterprise cyber risk now means managing risks to patient safety. This Solution Brief provides 5 best practices for identifying, managing, and mitigating enterprise cyber risk to help health systems...
As thousands of hospitals, clinics and doctor practices potentially have to notify millions of patients about the Change Healthcare breach, the American Hospital Association said the IT services firm and parent company, UnitedHealth Group, should be the sole sender of notifications.
Recognizing the increasing interconnectedness of global markets and the inherent vulnerabilities posed by technology, regulators worldwide are emphasizing the imperative for comprehensive approaches such as DORA. Financial institutions are urged to adopt a proactive stance, acknowledging that disruptive events are a...
A nursing home operator is seeking bankruptcy protection, citing the effects of a ransomware attack last fall and fallout from the recent Change Healthcare outage as factors that contributed to its financial woes. Also, a Senate bill aims to address cash flows for some health firms hit by an attack.
Artificial intelligence technologies such as generative AI are not helping fraudsters create new types of scams. They are doing just fine relying on the traditional scams, but the advent of AI is helping them scale up attacks and snare more victims, according to researchers at Visa.
Revenue cycle management firm MedData has agreed to a $7 million settlement in a class action lawsuit filed after an employee inadvertently uploaded and exposed the health and personal information of about 136,000 individuals on the public-facing part of GitHub for more than a year.
In the latest "Proof of Concept," panelists Sam Curry of Zscaler and Heather West of Venable LLP discuss the crucial role of explainability and transparency in artificial intelligence, especially in areas such as healthcare and finance, where AI decisions can significantly affect people's lives.
The current use of artificial intelligence in the U.K. defense sector is not about creating killer robots. It is focused on optimizing resources and increasing the efficiency of military operations, experts speaking at the Alan Turing Institute's AI UK conference told attendees.
The House voted Wednesday to pass the Protecting Americans' Data from Foreign Adversaries Act, a bill that would provide the FCC with enhanced authorities to seek up to $50,000 in civil penalties against data brokers that sell Americans' sensitive information to countries such as Russia and China.
Federal authorities are warning healthcare and public health sector entities of email bomb attacks, a type of denial-of-service attack that can overwhelm email systems and networks and distract victims from other nefarious activities. The incidents can also disrupt clinical and business workflow.
Fraudsters increasingly focus on synthetic entity fraud because forming a corporation requires few verification checks. This lack of rigorous verification by business registrars has led to an explosion in fake companies, said Andrew La Marca at Dun & Bradstreet.
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