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The Right Cyber-Talk
I recently taught a cyber security class to a large medical practice. The goals were to better protect the organization from cyber-attacks and to improve their HIPAA compliance. This medical practice is a well-run and well-managed business that invests in its...
Are you Cyber Confident?
In our conversations with healthcare practice managers and CIOs - whether at small-to-medium practices, dental offices, outpatient facilities, or hospitals - we've found that few leaders feel confident in their organization's ability to protect against and respond to...
HIMSS 2018 – Take Aways
I attended the national HIMSS 2018 conference in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. 43,000+ roaming loose in Vegas, primarily in a few hotels and the Sands Expo Center. It was mayhem. I attended the Cyber Security Symposium all day Monday. Six sessions focused on cyber...
Third Rock Enhances SECURETexas Capabilities
Third Rock Enhances SECURETexas Capabilities Customized to over 20 types of healthcare specialties for better protection of patient information against cyber threats Austin, TX – March 21, 2018 – Third Rock, a preferred vendor for Texas Health Services Authority...
Third Rock Team Presenting at ISSA Austin
Boost your Cyber Confidence! Get some tips and inspiration when Third Rock’s Julie Rennecker, Robert Felps, and Mike Moran present Healthcare: Transforming an Industry from Cyber Victim to Cyber Confident at the ISSA Austin Chapter meeting tomorrow, March 20.
An alternative approach to the cyber security talent shortage
Our CEO would contend there is an alternative approach to the cyber security talent shortage. Most breaches occur because computer systems are easy to breach and people make mistakes. Compare the number of breaches based on operating systems. Linux and UNIX...
How to Grow Cyber Security Awareness Heroes
The top threat facing any organization today is the staff member working from a computer! Not because this person intends to do malicious harm to the organization, but because of lack of cyber security awareness and training. Confirmation of this is MediaPro’s 2017...
Overcoming Organizational Roadblocks to Cyber Security
In many organizations, cyber security is perceived as one of those “important-but-not-urgent” issues that keep getting put off in deference to the pressing issues of the day – insurance denials, staffing, readmissions, patient no-shows, supply shortages…the list goes...
Cyber Security: Is it Really a Matter of Life or Death?
A webinar brought to you by the National Rural Health Association and Rural Hospital Insurance of America If you are the CEO, CFO or COO of a Rural Hospital then this webinar is for YOU! But, it is open to all healthcare management. On February 21, from 2:00 pm - 3:00...
Cyber Hygiene: Are your systems hardened?
Third Rock performs Risk Assessments (Security Risk Analysis) for very small firms to large organizations in healthcare, technical, financial, insurance, oil and gas, and other industries. We know the focus of the assessment needs to be security; therefore, we run an...