Industry Perspectives

Analysis and curated insights on systemic risk, emerging threats, and the evolving healthcare risk landscape.

August 3, 2026

5 Steps to Align Premarket and Postmarket Cybersecurity

Align pre- and postmarket cybersecurity in one lifecycle: shared governance, build-produced SBOMs, coordinated response, scheduled reviews.

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August 3, 2026

RTO vs. RPO: Key Differences for Healthcare Recovery

RTO vs RPO in healthcare: how downtime and data loss impact patient safety, setting measurable targets, and testing recovery plans.

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August 1, 2026

How to Assess Network Security for Medical Devices

Checklist to secure medical-device networks: inventory, segmentation, firewall rules, IDS coverage, and tracked residual risk.

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July 31, 2026

Impact of Third-Party Failures on Patient Safety

How third-party software and vendor outages cause device failures, delayed care, and increased patient harm, plus practical steps to reduce risk.

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July 31, 2026

How KRIs Improve Healthcare Cybersecurity Reporting

Show risk before it hits care: practical KRIs for patching, MFA, vendors, devices, detection, and response tied to HIPAA and NIST.

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July 31, 2026

Common Network Vulnerabilities in Healthcare IT Systems

Identifies internet-exposed services, weak remote access, legacy systems, poor segmentation, and unmanaged devices that endanger patient care.

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July 31, 2026

How SHIELD Act Impacts Healthcare Data Security

NY SHIELD broadens HIPAA scope, mandates 30-day breach notices, and raises vendor, inventory, and access-control requirements.

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July 31, 2026

HIPAA Breach Notification Rule: Key Reporting Requirements

Clear steps, deadlines, and notice requirements for reporting breaches of unsecured PHI to individuals, HHS, and media.

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July 31, 2026

How Telehealth Tools Assess Network Vulnerabilities

Guide to scoping, safe discovery and authenticated scans, validating findings, and prioritizing fixes to secure telehealth and protect patient care.

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July 31, 2026

Adversarial Attack Simulation in Healthcare AI: Case Studies

Case studies show imaging, EHR, chatbot, and infrastructure AI can fail catastrophically under adversarial attacks.

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July 31, 2026

HIPAA Backup Retention Policies Explained

Explains HIPAA’s six-year documentation rule, why backup retention follows state/CMS laws, and how to build resilient, defensible backup policies.

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July 31, 2026

10 Questions to Ask Vendors About AI Risk

Practical checklist to vet healthcare AI vendors: training data, PHI use, security, bias checks, monitoring, governance, and incident response.

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July 30, 2026

HIPAA Compliance in Emergency Data Breaches

ER/EMS cyberattack response: contain systems, limit PHI disclosures, run the four‑factor risk test, and meet 60‑day HIPAA notice rules.

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July 29, 2026

Phishing Playbook for Healthcare Teams

Practical playbook to detect, contain, and recover from healthcare phishing; prioritize patient safety, PHI review, and HIPAA reporting.

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July 29, 2026

Cloud Forensic Capabilities: What Healthcare Needs

Healthcare must require vendors to provide immutable, time‑synced, tenant‑isolated cloud evidence and SLA-backed exports for HIPAA.

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July 29, 2026

AI for Health Equity: Lessons from Safety-Net Hospitals

How safety-net hospitals use simple tech, local testing, subgroup tracking, and governance to make AI reduce care gaps.

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July 29, 2026

2026 Guide to Cloud PHI Backup Strategies

Practical cloud PHI backup guidance: align RPO/RTO to clinical impact, enforce immutability and isolation, encrypt, and test restores.

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July 29, 2026

Ultimate Guide to PHI Encryption Standards

AES-256 plus strict key custody decides if PHI breaches remain unreadable or become reportable disasters.

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July 28, 2026

Steps for Secure Medical Device Decommissioning

Securely retire medical devices: assign ownership, sanitize data (NIST SP 800-88), remove access, decontaminate, and keep 6-year records.

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July 28, 2026

KRI Thresholds for AI Risk in Healthcare Cybersecurity

Turn AI risk into numeric KRIs with green/amber/red thresholds, owners, and playbooks to prevent PHI exposure, drift, or care disruption.

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July 28, 2026

Unpatched Medical Devices: Safety Risks

Unpatched medical devices risk missed alarms, therapy errors, and network spread—treat patching as a patient-safety priority.

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July 28, 2026

SOC 2 Automation Software: Top Picks for 2026

Evaluate top SOC 2 automation platforms for healthcare by PHI scope, BAA support, HIPAA-to-SOC2 mapping, log retention, and audit cost.

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July 28, 2026

Third-Party Risk Management for HIPAA Compliance

Layered HIPAA TPRM: BAAs, evidence-based reviews, continuous monitoring, frameworks, and a platform to manage vendor PHI risk.

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July 27, 2026

IEC 62304 Compliance Testing: Key Steps

Prove medical software safety: map hazards to testable requirements, run unit-to-system verification, and keep traceable evidence.

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