Tag: Health-ISAC

• Leading Health-ISAC’s European efforts to improve global security and patient safety

Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) has announced Vasileios Mingos has joined the organization and will serve as European Operations Director. Mingos will oversee all Health-ISAC European Operations, the European Regional Threat Operations Center, and represent Health-ISAC throughout Europe.

In his role, Mingos will continue to expand a regional Health-ISAC presence in Europe by collaborating directly with member organizations, including some of the world’s largest healthcare firms. In addition, he will develop and enhance partnerships with key regional stakeholders such as industry associations, government agencies, CERTs, and law enforcement.

“We are excited to bring Vasileios onboard for this important mission,” says Denise Anderson, President and CEO of Health-ISAC. “He brings a passion as well as deep experience in healthcare cybersecurity to the position. Having him as part of the global team helps solidify Health-ISAC’s commitment to securing healthcare globally and serving our members and the health sector in Europe.”

Mingos has a strong background in building and leading information security teams since 2017 and his previous work experience includes developing and implementing Eurofins’ Security Operations Center and Security Intelligence program in Europe.

ABOUT HEALTH-ISAC
Health-ISAC – a non-profit, private sector, member-driven organization – plays an essential role in providing situational awareness around cyber and physical security threats to the Healthcare Sector so that companies can detect, mitigate, and respond to ensure operational resilience. Health-ISAC connects thousands of healthcare security professionals worldwide to share peer insights, real-time alerts, and best practices in a trusted, collaborative environment. As the go-to source for timely, actionable, and relevant information, Health-ISAC is a force-multiplier that enables healthcare organizations of all sizes to enhance situation awareness, develop effective mitigation strategies and proactively defend against threats every single day.

Contact Information:
Julia Annaloro
Marketing and Communications II
contact@h-isac.org
+1-321-593-1470

• 2022 Annual Report Exemplifies Global Collaboration for Resilience in Healthcare

Health-ISAC, a nonprofit, member-driven organization, has released its 2022 Annual Report, capturing the value it delivers to the global healthcare security community.

The report highlights the many important services delivered over the year, including developing a customized exercise program, publishing its first Annual Threat Report, devoting resources and expertise to Medical Device Security, and producing 275 Targeted Alerts, 87 Threat Bulletins, 144 Vulnerability Bulletins and 197 Finished Intelligence Reports among other vital information. In addition, Health-ISAC shared over 21,000 highly curated Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and 2 pre-public vulnerability notifications with its members.

“The 2022 Annual Report reflects the commitment to fulfilling our mission of advancing physical and cyber resilience in the global healthcare community,” says Denise Anderson, President and CEO, Health-ISAC. “I’m pleased to share the numerous and amazing accomplishments we have made as an ISAC and as a community over the past year. We truly are individual organizations coming together for the good of all.”

The publication is a quick read and documents relevant numbers, activities, threat operations, and events undertaken in 2022 as well as top incidents and vulnerabilities covered over the year. To learn more and download the report, go to https://h-isac.org/health-isac-2022-annual-report-exemplifies-global-collaboration-for-resilience/.

ABOUT HEALTH-ISAC
Health-ISAC – a nonprofit, private sector, member-driven organization – plays an essential role in providing situational awareness around cyber and physical security threats to the Healthcare Sector so that companies can detect, mitigate and respond to ensure operational resilience. Health-ISAC connects thousands of healthcare security professionals worldwide to share peer insights, real-time alerts, and best practices in a trusted, collaborative environment. As the go-to source for timely, actionable, and relevant information, Health-ISAC is a force-multiplier that enables healthcare organizations of all sizes to enhance situation awareness, develop effective mitigation strategies, and proactively defend against threats every single day.

Contact Information:
Julia Annaloro
Marketing and Communications II
contact@h-isac.org
+1-321-593-1470

SOURCE: Health-ISAC, Inc.

• Actionable intelligence enhances situational awareness for global healthcare security professionals

Health-ISAC, a nonprofit, member-driven organization, has published its annual cyber threat report on current and emerging threat activity in collaboration with Booz Allen Hamilton Cyber Threat Intelligence.

The annual threat report enables healthcare security professionals worldwide to ensure operational resilience by enhancing situational awareness and strengthening their ability to detect, mitigate and respond to cyber threats.

Health-ISAC’s Current and Emerging Healthcare Cyber Threat Landscape report reviews and analyzes the cybercriminal, geopolitical and nation state threats healthcare organizations currently face, as well as threats on the horizon, such as product abuse and synthetic accounts. As noted in the report, an increase in connected medical devices also increases the attack surface of healthcare institutions. While newer medical device designs have improved cybersecurity controls, organizations must prepare for and defend across a broad spectrum of technology while also dealing with software end-of-life issues in legacy medical devices and the many cyber threats detailed in the report.

“Healthcare professionals can use the Health-ISAC annual threat report to not only stay ahead of the day-to-day threats facing the health sector but they can use the information strategically to communicate long-term challenges the sector is facing and help justify additional investments in cyber security spending and where more resources are needed – all in the name of improving patient safety and security,” said Denise Anderson, Health-ISAC President & CEO.

The report was published for Health-ISAC members only in February. A public, executive summary was released as part of this press announcement.

“While cyber adversaries continue to get more creative as shown in Health-ISAC’s annual threat report, simple attacks, like social engineering, are unfortunately still very effective. Information security practitioners who believed Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) was the silver bullet are now reeling from major breaches that leveraged social engineering and technical measures to defeat it,” said Errol Weiss, Chief Security Officer at Health-ISAC. “All of this spells the need for continuous awareness – we need to stay on top of new threats and attack techniques, and most importantly, active information sharing that provides for community defense that will ultimately help improve the resilience of our healthcare sector networks.”

ABOUT HEALTH-ISAC
Health-ISAC – a nonprofit, private sector, member-driven organization – plays an essential role in providing situational awareness around cyber and physical security threats to the Healthcare Sector so that companies can detect, mitigate, and respond to ensure operational resilience. Health-ISAC connects thousands of healthcare security professionals worldwide to share peer insights, real-time alerts, and best practices in a trusted, collaborative environment. As the go-to source for timely, actionable, and relevant information, Health-ISAC is a force-multiplier that enables healthcare organizations of all sizes to enhance situation awareness, develop effective mitigation strategies and proactively defend against threats every single day.

Contact Information:
Julia Annaloro
Marketing and Communications II
jannaloro@h-isac.org
+1-321-593-1470

SOURCE: Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC)