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Cloud or Not-to-Cloud; The Allscripts Breach
Allscripts’ Electronic Health Records service was the first major cloud-based EHR to be significantly disrupted by a ransomware attack. Close to 1,500 practices were affected by the EHR outage for about a week; essentially shutting down those practices. Allscripts...
Cybersecurity and The Endless List of Compliance
I recently wrote about insurance companies raising the bar on business to protect their valuable data to acquire cyber liability insurance. But, it's not just insurance companies that are raising the bar. Governments around the globe are now requiring all types of...
Internet of Medical Things: Real Security Threat or Hype?
For decades, healthcare medical devices functioned as freestanding tools. Glucometers, lasers, infusion pumps, pressure monitors, neonatal incubators, heart monitors – each serving its unique function independently of the others. With the widespread implementation of...
Practical Steps to Protect Your Data!
Being in the business of helping our customers protect their data, my email inbox is filled with news of cyber breaches and the latest, state of the art, machine learning artificial intelligence cybersecurity systems! I think there is an “arms race” between the...
Shortage of Qualified Cybersecurity Workers: “…the greatest cyber risk of all.”
The 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS) released in February 2017 forecast a shortage of 1.8 million cybersecurity workers by 2020, while a study by Cybersecurity Ventures estimates “3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs” by 2021. While the...
With the New Year, New Regulations!
With each New Year, we always look back and review the significant events of the previous year. By all accounts, 2017 was a wild and woolly year! World and national politics, the stock market, terrorism and acts of mass violence, devastating hurricanes, and forest...
Cyber Liability Insurance Becoming More Difficult to Purchase
Hopefully, you've realized one of your pieces of defense in the cybersecurity war is Cyber Liability Insurance or Data Breach Insurance, sometimes called Cyber Insurance. What you may not know is that cyber liability insurance is getting more difficult to obtain. ...
2018 The Year of the Meltdown and Spectre
If you don't read about cybersecurity and stolen data everyday then you probably don't read much news. But, if you scan the news headlines once in a while you're aware of the following: 2014 - The Year of the Cyber Breach 2015 - The Year of the Healthcare Cyber...
Protect Your Clients, Your Clients’ Data, and Your Business – a webinar offered by Developmental Services Network
Robert Felps, CEO of Third Rock, is proud to present a cybersecurity webinar - Protect Your Clients, Your Clients' Data, and Your Business - for Developmental Services Network on Thursday, January 18, 2018, 10:30 am - 11:30 am PST. Did you know your client data is...
Third Rock Streamlines SECURETexas Privacy and Security Certification
Round Rock, TX – December 19, 2017 – Third Rock, who was awarded preferred vendor status with Texas Health Services Authority (THSA) in August this year, has streamlined the SECURETexas certification process to help healthcare organizations reduce liability by better...