Author: Allison Burke

With the recent release of the Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients publication, the 405(d) initiative is happy to announce the: HICP’s 5 Threat Weekly Series! The Series kicks off this week with Threat 1 – Email Phishing

We are pleased to bring you our 2018 Annual Report highlighting our many accomplishments over the past year. In 2018 we released a resource guide titled “Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients” which is a scalable toolkit of the top ten cybersecurity best practices for hospital systems and developed the Medical Device & Health IT Joint Security Plan (JSP). Thank you to all who contributed to our mission and helped make healthcare cybersecurity more robust and resilient. Let’s keep up the momentum in 2019.

The Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is pleased to announce the release of the “Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP): Managing Threats and Protecting Patients” publication. The four-volume publication seeks to raise awareness for executives, health care practitioners, providers, and health delivery organizations, such as hospitals. It is applicable to health organizations of all types and sizes across the industry.

More details to come in 2019.