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2024-05-01 05:12:14 | Quelle est la meilleure façon d'arrêter la perte de données Genai?Adopter une approche centrée sur l'homme What\\'s the Best Way to Stop GenAI Data Loss? Take a Human-Centric Approach (lien direct) |
Chief information security officers (CISOs) face a daunting challenge as they work to integrate generative AI (GenAI) tools into business workflows. Robust data protection measures are important to protect sensitive data from being leaked through GenAI tools. But CISOs can\'t just block access to GenAI tools entirely. They must find ways to give users access because these tools increase productivity and drive innovation. Unfortunately, legacy data loss prevention (DLP) tools can\'t help with achieving the delicate balance between security and usability. Today\'s release of Proofpoint DLP Transform changes all that. It provides a modern alternative to legacy DLP tools in a single, economically attractive package. Its innovative features help CISOs strike the right balance between protecting data and usability. It\'s the latest addition to our award-winning DLP solution, which was recognized as a 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers\' Choice for Data Loss Prevention. Proofpoint was the only vendor that placed in the upper right “Customers\' Choice” Quadrant. In this blog, we\'ll dig into some of our latest research about GenAI and data loss risks. And we\'ll explain how Proofpoint DLP Transform provides you with a human-centric approach to reduce those risks. GenAI increases data loss risks Users can make great leaps in productivity with ChatGPT and other GenAI tools. However, GenAI also introduces a new channel for data loss. Employees often enter confidential data into these tools as they use them to expedite their tasks. Security pros are worried, too. Recent Proofpoint research shows that: Generative AI is the fastest-growing area of concern for CISOs 59% of board members believe that GenAI is a security risk for their business “Browsing GenAI sites” is one of the top five alert scenarios configured by companies that use Proofpoint Information Protection Valuable business data like mergers and acquisitions (M&A) documents, supplier contracts, and price lists are listed as the top data to protect A big problem faced by CISOs is that legacy DLP tools can\'t capture user behavior and respond to natural language processing-based user interfaces. This leaves security gaps. That\'s why they often use blunt tools like web filtering to block employees from using GenAI apps altogether. You can\'t enforce acceptable use policies for GenAI if you don\'t understand your content and how employees are interacting with it. If you want your employees to use these tools without putting your data security at risk, you need to take a human-centric approach to data loss. A human-centric approach stops data loss With a human-centric approach, you can detect data loss risk across endpoints and cloud apps like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Salesforce with speed. Insights into user intent allow you to move fast and take the right steps to respond to data risk. Proofpoint DLP Transform takes a human-centric approach to solving the security gaps with GenAI. It understands employee behavior as well as the data that they are handling. It surgically allows and disallows employees to use GenAI tools such as OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Gemini based on employee behavior and content inputs, even if the data has been manipulated or has gone through multiple channels (email, web, endpoint or cloud) before reaching it. Proofpoint DLP Transform accurately identifies sensitive content using classical content and LLM-powered data classifiers and provides deep visibility into user behavior. This added context enables analysts to reach high-fidelity verdicts about data risk across all key channels including email, cloud, and managed and unmanaged endpoints. With a unified console and powerful analytics, Proofpoint DLP Transform can accelerate incident resolution natively or as part of the security operations (SOC) ecosystem. It is built on a cloud-native architecture and features modern privacy controls. Its lightweight and highly stable user-mode agent is unique in | Tool Medical Cloud | ChatGPT | ★★★ |
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2024-03-29 06:00:11 | Déverrouiller l'efficacité de la cybersécurité dans les soins de santé: utiliser des informations sur les menaces pour naviguer dans la surface d'attaque humaine Unlocking Cybersecurity Efficiency in Healthcare: Using Threat Insights to Navigate the Human Attack Surface (lien direct) |
Understanding your organization\'s human attack surface is not just a good idea in today\'s threat landscape; it\'s essential. Why? Because it can make all the difference in your efforts to allocate your limited resources efficiently. Let\'s face it-in the world of cybersecurity, one size does not fit all. It is not feasible to adopt a uniform approach to secure your business. And while most of your users may pose a minimal risk, there are smaller, high-risk groups that attract the lion\'s share of attention from cyberthreat actors. Identifying these groups and understanding what makes these users so enticing to attackers is key to creating an effective defense. At Proofpoint, we recognize the importance of understanding the human attack surface. Our approach to cybersecurity revolves around a human-centric defense strategy. And email serves as a valuable window into the most vulnerable parts of your business. We analyze inbound threats directed at email addresses and enrich them with directory information. This is a Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) feature that\'s available to all customers. As a result, we provide valuable insights into the job roles and departments that are prime targets for attackers. In this blog, we\'ll go through some of our most recent insights for the healthcare industry-and the job roles that attracted the most interest from attackers. 2023 research overview For our research in 2023, we created a healthcare peer group of over 50 similar hospital systems to track within the Proofpoint TAP platform. We meticulously analyzed “people data” from these systems to identify trends in attack patterns. We tracked: Attack index Click rates Malicious message volume Total clicks across various departments More specifically, we looked for outlier clusters that exhibited movement beyond the average. What follows are a few of our insights. Threat actors target roles related to finance and the revenue cycle back-end As it turns out, attackers have a penchant for people in finance-related jobs and those who are involved in transactions. These users were consistently attacked more than others. When we drill down further on our findings, we see that departments involved in the supply chain and facilities management exhibit similar deviations from the average. The reason? These roles often require people to be involved in transactions, making them attractive targets for attackers. 2023 department-level average attack index: Finance and transactional job roles averaged a significantly higher attack index per month per user. Money is a bigger draw than data But here is where it gets interesting. When we compare job roles and departments based on access to transactions versus access to health information, the difference is stark. It seems that attackers are more determined to interdict financial transactions than to gain access to users with large amounts of health data. 2023 department-level average attack index; medical and information services departments averaged a significantly lower attack index per month per user than financial and transactional job roles. Threat actors go after roles that deal with patient service revenue Going a step further, we wanted to understand the impact of threats on people in administrative and clinical roles who help capture, manage and collect patient service revenue. We examined the revenue cycle by categorizing job roles and departments in the following ways. Front-end (admin and pre-visit) Middle (visit, claim submission) Back-end (inbound processing, payer, patient) The disparity between groups with access to transactions and those with access to health data is evident. The revenue cycle back-end category exhibits the highest average attack index among revenue cycle labeled data, which we attribute to finance job roles associated with billing. 2023 average of attack index trends; revenue cycle quarterly comparison. The interest of attackers in finance-related job roles comes | Threat Medical | ★★ | |
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2024-03-18 12:03:01 | Rapport IC3 de FBI \\: pertes de la cybercriminalité dépasse 12,5 milliards de dollars - un nouveau record FBI\\'s IC3 Report: Losses from Cybercrime Surpass $12.5 Billion-a New Record (lien direct) |
The 2023 Internet Crime Report from the FBI\'s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is out. And for defenders, it\'s a troubling read. The FBI saw only a minor uptick in reported cybercrime complaints last year from the American public. On the surface, this seems like positive news. There were only 79,474 more complaints filed than in 2022. However, that total is much more significant when you consider the potential losses from cybercrime. Losses surpassed $12.5 billion last year, a 22% increase from 2022 and a new record high. That staggering figure is part of a far more complex story about cybercrime in 2023. The report notes that: Investment fraud losses surged, jumping from $3.31 billion in 2022 to $4.57 billion in 2023-a 38% increase Business email compromise (BEC) cases were a top concern, with 21,489 complaints and adjusted losses exceeding $2.9 billion-up 7.4% from 2022 The allure of cryptocurrency played a pivotal role in both investment fraud and BEC incidents Tech support scams were the third-costliest cybercrime category among the crime types that the IC3 tracks In this post, we will examine these trends in more detail. And we will explain how Proofpoint can help businesses improve their defenses and meet these threats head-on. Complaints and losses from cybercrime reported over the last five years. (Source: FBI\'s IC3 2023 Internet Crime Report.) The rise of investment fraud Investment scams have become the most reported and costliest type of crime that the IC3 tracks. In these scams, bad actors lure victims with promises of big returns on investments. Attackers have been targeting cryptocurrency investors, in particular. The rise of this fraud highlights why due diligence and user self-awareness is so important. Users need to think twice and use caution when they are approached with investment opportunities, especially those that relate to cryptocurrencies. Investment fraud losses reported over the last five years. (Source: FBI\'s IC3 2023 Internet Crime Report.) An escalation in BEC threats BEC is the second-most prevalent cyberthreat highlighted in the latest Internet Crime Report. The actors behind these scams aim to deceive users and businesses into making unauthorized fund transfers or divulging corporate information. These attacks involve sophisticated tactics like: The compromise of legitimate business email accounts Social engineering attacks Impersonation scams As more people use cryptocurrency exchanges and rely on third-party payment processors, it\'s increasingly important to stop BEC threats before they reach users. There is also a pressing need for automated remediation and heightened user vigilance to protect against these threats. Vulnerable populations at risk for impersonation scams The FBI\'s IC3 reports that impersonation scams led to over $1.3 billion in losses last year. To carry out these scams, bad actors use deceptive tactics, like directing victims to send cash through shipping companies or online wire services. Adults over the age of 60 accounted for half of tech support scams last year. This amounted to $3.6 billion in losses. Individuals 30-39 years old were most likely to report these incidents to the FBI\'s IC3. The prevalence of impersonation scams underscores the need to raise awareness among the vulnerable populations that are targeted by attackers. Understanding this risk will help them to be more wary and avoid becoming victims. Ransomware attacks Ransomware attacks encrypt data and cause service disruptions and financial losses. They are also a persistent threat. The FBI\'s IC3 received over 2,800 complaints about this attack type last year. Reported losses from these incidents exceeded $59.6 million-an 18% increase from 2022. To understand just how costly these attacks can be, consider the plight of MGM Resorts. In September 2023, a targeted ransomware attack cost the entertainment giant over $100 million. MGM Resorts\' filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission notes that i | Ransomware Threat Medical | ★★ | |
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2024-03-06 13:55:16 | TA4903: acteur usurpation du gouvernement américain, petites entreprises en phishing, BEC BIDS TA4903: Actor Spoofs U.S. Government, Small Businesses in Phishing, BEC Bids (lien direct) |
Key takeaways TA4903 is a unique threat actor that demonstrates at least two distinct objectives: (1) credential phishing and (2) business email compromise (BEC). TA4903 routinely conducts campaigns spoofing various U.S. government entities to steal corporate credentials. The actor also spoofs organizations in various sectors including construction, finance, healthcare, food and beverage, and others. The campaign volumes range from hundreds of messages to tens of thousands of messages per campaign. The messages typically target entities in the U.S., although additional global targeting has been observed. TA4903 has been observed using the EvilProxy MFA bypass tool. In late 2023, TA4903 began adopting QR codes in credential phishing campaigns. Overview TA4903 is a financially motivated cybercriminal threat actor that spoofs both U.S. government entities and private businesses across many industries. The actor mostly targets organizations located in the United States, but occasionally those located globally, with high-volume email campaigns. Proofpoint assesses with high confidence the objectives of the campaigns are to steal corporate credentials, infiltrate mailboxes, and conduct follow-on business email compromise (BEC) activity. Proofpoint began observing a series of campaigns spoofing federal U.S. government entities in December 2021. The campaigns, which were subsequently attributed to TA4903, first masqueraded as the U.S. Department of Labor. In 2022 campaigns, the threat actors purported to be the U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Commerce. During 2023, the actor began to spoof the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In mid-2023 through 2024, Proofpoint observed an increase in credential phishing and fraud campaigns using different themes from TA4903. The actor began spoofing various small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across various industries including construction, manufacturing, energy, finance, food and beverage, and others. Proofpoint observed an increase in the tempo of BEC themes as well, including using themes such as “cyberattacks” to prompt victims to provide payment and banking details. Most credential phishing messages associated with this actor contain URLs or attachments leading to credential phishing websites. In some cases, including the government-themed campaigns, messages contain PDF attachments that contain embedded links or QR codes leading to websites that appear to be direct clones of the spoofed government agency. Based on Proofpoint\'s research and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) observed in open-source intelligence, activity related to TA4903\'s impersonation of U.S. government entities goes back to at least mid-2021. TTPs associated with the actor\'s broader credential phishing and BEC activities are observable as long ago as 2019. Campaign details Government bid spoofing Historically, Proofpoint mostly observed TA4903 conducting credential theft campaigns using PDF attachments leading to portals spoofing U.S. government entities, typically using bid proposal lures. In late 2023, TA4903 began spoofing the USDA and began incorporating QR codes into their PDFs, a technique previously unobserved by this actor. Messages may purport to be, for example: From: U.S. Department of Agriculture Subject: Invitation To Bid Attachment: usda2784748973bid.pdf Example of one page of a multi-page PDF spoofing the USDA. The “Bid Now” button is hyperlinked to the same URL as the QR code. In these campaigns, the PDF attachments are typically multiple pages long and have both embedded URLs and QR codes that lead to government-branded phishing websites. Example credential phishing website operated by TA4903, designed to capture O365 and other email account credentials. In 2023, Proofpoint observed TA4903 spoof the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), and the USDA us | Tool Threat Medical | ★★★ | |
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2023-10-10 17:00:00 | Le nouveau rapport Ponemon montre que les organisations de soins de santé font peu de progrès dans la protection des patients contre les dommages des cyberattaques New Ponemon Report Shows Healthcare Organizations Are Making Little Progress in Protecting Patients from the Harms of Cyber Attacks (lien direct) |
The healthcare sector is finally acknowledging that cyber attacks affect more than just the financial bottom line. Providers are starting to understand that a weak cybersecurity posture puts patients\' safety and well-being at risk-and may endanger lives. Despite this growing understanding, however, little progress has been made in the past year to improve organizational security. The Ponemon Institute\'s second annual Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare: The Cost and Impact on Patient Safety and Care 2023 report, commissioned by Proofpoint, shows that healthcare businesses have made no strides in protecting patients from the physical harm of cyber attacks. The survey found that 88% of healthcare companies experienced an average of 40 attacks in the past 12 months. Among the 653 healthcare and IT security practitioners surveyed: 66% said cyber attacks targeting their business disrupted patient care 50% experienced an increase in complications from medical procedures 23% saw an increase in mortality rates These numbers are similar to last year\'s report and confirm what\'s already well-known in the industry: Change is slow in healthcare, especially when it comes to IT investments. The devastating impacts of various attacks on patient safety The most common types of attacks examined in the Ponemon report are: Cloud compromise Ransomware Supply chain Business email compromise (BEC) We learned that supply chain attacks are the most likely to disrupt patient care (77%, up from 70% in 2022). However, when it comes to specific repercussions, BEC leads in three of five categories. This is the type of attack most likely to cause poor outcomes due to: Delays in tests and procedures (71%) An increase in complications from medical procedures (56%) A longer length of stay (55%) What may surprise healthcare leaders and clinicians is the impact of data loss or exfiltration. When protected health information (PHI) is compromised, most think in terms of the impact to patient privacy. However, the report shows that the implications are far more dangerous. Forty-three percent of survey participants said a data loss or exfiltration incident affected patient care. Of those that experienced this impact, 46% saw an increase in mortality rates, and 38% noted an increase in medical procedure complications. Cloud risk on the rise as adoption grows The healthcare sector has lagged behind most other industries in cloud adoption. It took a global pandemic to shake things up: Sixty-two percent of surveyed physicians said the pandemic forced them to make upgrades to technology that would have taken years to accomplish otherwise. But with the broad adoption of cloud apps, care providers are more vulnerable to cloud threats. ECRI (an independent authority on healthcare technology and safety) ranked care disruption due to the failure to manage cyber risk of cloud-based clinical systems as one of the top 10 healthcare technology hazards for 2023. Given the high rate of adoption, it\'s not surprising the Ponemon report found that cloud compromise is now the top concern for healthcare companies. Cloud compromise rose to first place this year from fifth last year-with 63% of respondents expressing this concern, compared with 57% in 2022. Likewise, healthcare businesses are feeling the most vulnerable to a cloud compromise than other types of attacks, with 74% of respondents in agreement. Ransomware remains ever-present, despite decreased concerns One surprising finding from the survey is the significant decrease in concerns about ransomware attacks. Although 54% of respondents reported that their business had experienced a ransomware attack (up from 41% in 2022), they\'re the least worried about this type of threat. Only 48% of those surveyed said ransomware was a concern-a big decline from last year\'s 60%. Based on recent events, we know that the impacts of ransomware incidents are getting worse. In August, for example, a ransomware attack on a California-based health system | Ransomware Threat Medical Cloud | ★★★★ | |
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2023-09-25 05:00:10 | Comment la sécurité des e-mails gérée par la preuve aide à combler l'écart de talents de cybersécurité How Proofpoint Managed Email Security Helps Fill the Cybersecurity Talent Gap (lien direct) |
Talent shortages continue to plague the cybersecurity industry. Cyberseek.org reports that only 69% of cybersecurity jobs in the United States are staffed. Without the right talent, companies are at risk from attacks by threat actors. By 2025, Gartner predicts that talent shortages or human lapses will be at the root of over half of significant cyber incidents. Here\'s a rundown of some of today\'s biggest talent challenges faced by organizations: The impacts of the global cybersecurity skills shortage on businesses. (Source: “The Life and Times of Cybersecurity Professionals” by ISSA and Enterprise Strategy Group by TechTarget, 2023.) Challenges with recruiting and retaining security talent Email remains the go-to threat vector for many threat actors who target it to launch phishing scams, distribute malware, pursue business email compromise (BEC) campaigns, and more. BEC is an especially significant threat. In the 2023 State of the Phish report Proofpoint research showed that 75% percent of businesses experienced at least one BEC attack last year. Many businesses want to hire experienced email security professionals with extensive domain knowledge to help defend against BEC and other email-based threats. However, these professionals are hard to find in the hiring market. Email security professionals also need analytical and problem-solving skills. They need to translate identified threats and assessments into practical steps for remediation. In other words, the nature of the role is multidimensional, as it combines skill sets from email security and threat intelligence. Proofpoint Managed Email Threat Protection elevates email security As the threat landscape is dynamic, your organization\'s email management and incident response need to be a continuous process. Without an adequate supply of talent, how can businesses keep their email secure? Proofpoint Managed Email Threat Protection can help. As a co-managed service delivered by our email security and threat protection experts, it can help you fill gaps in your cybersecurity team. Here\'s what our expert team can offer: They can provide expertise in email security and threat protection Our experts deftly deploy and manage Proofpoint email security and threat protection products. They use a proactive approach to optimize your email system settings, rules and policies and update the latest threat intelligence. And they help to protect your business against emerging attack vectors and threat actors. “If I did not have [Proofpoint] Managed Services … I had said to my boss I would have to hire three skilled people, not entry-level people coming out of college.” - Information Security Director of a U.S. healthcare system and medical school with 20,000 users They can co-manage your daily email operations and provide staff continuity Attracting and retaining cyber talent are high priorities for security executives. But CISOs are expected to do more with less in these cautionary economic conditions. Amid these resource constraints, experts with Proofpoint can provide guidance and co-management of a company\'s daily email operations. Their support helps to foster operational stability. It reduces staffing needs and enhances cost-efficiency. “Massive value for dollars spent. We could only do one-third of the basic tasks you do, and we could not even conceptualize the strategic approach you take.” – CISO of a global equipment manufacturer with 35,000 users They can give valuable insights to your executives Our experts address email security gaps discovered during health checks. They provide configuration efficacy analysis, regular checkpoints and reports. This information adds transparency to your email security. It also empowers you and your leadership to monitor mitigations and gauge progress. “Proofpoint reports contain a lot of very useful information that helps us improve our operating performance. They give our nontechnical stakeholders a way to underst | Tool Threat Medical | ★★★ | |
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2023-09-22 05:00:22 | Nébuleuse: une plate-forme ML de nouvelle génération Nebula: A Next-Gen ML Platform (lien direct) |
Engineering Insights is an ongoing blog series that gives a behind-the-scenes look into the technical challenges, lessons and advances that help our customers protect people and defend data every day. Each post is a firsthand account by one of our engineers about the process that led up to a Proofpoint innovation. Cyber threats are increasing in their frequency and sophistication. And for a cybersecurity firm like Proofpoint, staying ahead of threats requires us to deploy new machine learning (ML) models at an unprecedented pace. The complexity and sheer volume of these models can be overwhelming. In previous blog posts, we discussed our approach to ML with Proofpoint Aegis, our threat protection platform. In this blog, we look at Nebula, our next-generation ML platform. It is designed to provide a robust solution for the rapid development and deployment of ML models. The challenges We live and breathe supervised machine learning at Proofpoint. And we face active adversaries who attempt to bypass our systems. As such, we have a few unique considerations for our ML process: Speed of disruption. Attackers move fast, and that demands that we be agile in our response. Manual tracking of attacker patterns alone isn\'t feasible; automation is essential. Growing complexity. Threats are becoming more multifaceted. As they do, the number of ML models we need escalates. A consistent and scalable modeling infrastructure is vital. Real-time requirements. It is essential to block threats before they can reach their intended targets. To be effective on that front, our platform must meet unique latency needs and support optimized deployment options for real-time inference. In other ML settings, like processing medical radiographs, data is more stable, so model quality can be expected to perform consistently over time. In the cybersecurity setting, we can\'t make such assumptions. We must move fast to update our models as new cyber attacks arise. Below is a high-level overview of our supervised learning process and the five steps involved. A supervised learning workflow, showing steps 1-5. Data scientists want to optimize this process so they can bootstrap new projects with ease. But other stakeholders have a vested interest, too. For example: Project managers need to understand project timelines for new systems or changes to existing projects. Security teams prefer system reuse to minimize the complexity of security reviews and decrease the attack surface. Finance teams want to understand the cost of bringing new ML systems online. Proofpoint needed an ML platform to address the needs of various stakeholders. So, we built Nebula. The Nebula solution We broke the ML lifecycle into three components-modeling, training and inference. And we developed modular infrastructure for each part. While these parts work together seamlessly, engineering teams can also use each one independently. The three modules of the Nebula platform-modeling, training and inference. These components are infrastructure as code. So, they can be deployed in multiple environments for testing, and every team or project can spin up an isolated environment to segment data. Nebula is opinionated. It\'s “opinionated” because “common use cases” and “the right thing” are subjective and hence require an opinion on what qualifies as such. It offers easy paths to deploy common use cases with the ability to create new variants as needed. The platform makes it easy to do the right thing-and hard to do the wrong thing. The ML lifecycle: experimentation, training and inference Let\'s walk through the ML lifecycle at a high level. Data scientists develop ML systems in the modeling environment. This environment isn\'t just a clean room; it\'s an instantiation of the full ML lifecycle- experimentation, training and inference. Once a data scientist has a model they like, they can initiate the training and inference logic in the training environment. That environment\'s strict polici | Threat Medical Cloud | ★★★ | |
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2023-09-19 05:00:12 | Pourquoi les données sur les soins de santé sont difficiles à protéger et quoi faire à ce sujet Why Healthcare Data Is Difficult to Protect-and What to Do About It (lien direct) |
Hospitals, clinics, health insurance providers and biotech firms have long been targets for cyber criminals. They handle data like protected health information (PHI), intellectual property (IP), clinical trial data and payment card data, giving attackers many options to cash in. And as healthcare institutions embrace the cloud, remote work and telehealth, the risks of attacks on this data only increase. Besides outside attackers, insider risk is another concern in an industry where employees face high and sustained levels of stress. And then there\'s the increasing risk of ransomware. In the 2022 Internet Crime Report from the FBI\'s Internet Crime Complaint Center, healthcare was called out as the critical infrastructure industry hardest hit by ransomware attacks. In this blog, we\'ll take a look at some of the information protection challenges faced by the healthcare industry today. And we\'ll look at some solutions. Healthcare data breach costs Not only are data breaches in healthcare on the rise, but the costs for these breaches are high for this industry, too. IBM\'s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 says that the average cost of a healthcare data breach in the past year was $11 million. These costs can include: Ransoms paid Systems remediation Noncompliance fines Litigation Brand degradation There\'s a high cost in terms of disruptions to patient care as well. System downtime or compromised data integrity due to cyber attacks can put patients at risk. For example, when Prospect Medical Holdings faced a recent cyber attack, its hospitals had to shut down their IT networks to prevent the attack\'s spread. They also needed to revert to paper charts. The Rhysida ransomware gang claimed responsibility for that attack, where a wealth of data, including 500,000 Social Security numbers, patient files, and legal documents, was stolen. Information protection challenges in healthcare Healthcare firms face many challenges in protecting sensitive data. They include: Insider threats and electronic health record (EHR) snooping What are some insider threats that can lead to data breaches in healthcare? Here\'s a short list of examples: Employees might sneak a peek at the medical records of a famous patient and share the details with the media. Careless workers could click on phishing emails and open the door to data theft. Malicious insiders can sell patient data on the dark web. Departing employees can take valuable research data with them to help along own careers. A growing attack surface due to cloud adoption Most healthcare businesses are increasing their use of cloud services. This move is helping them to improve patient care by making information more accessible. But broad sharing of files in cloud-based collaboration platforms increases the risk of a healthcare data breach. It is a significant risk, too. Proofpoint threat intelligence shows that in 2022, 62% of all businesses were compromised via cloud account takeover. Data at risk across multiple data loss channels When EHRs are housed on-premises, patient records can still be accessed, shared and stored on remote endpoint and cloud-based collaboration and email systems. And as healthcare data travels across larger geographies, protecting it becomes much more of a challenge. How Proofpoint can help Our information protection platform, Proofpoint Sigma, provides unmatched visibility and control over sensitive data across email, cloud, web and endpoints. This unified platform allows healthcare businesses to manage data risk, while saving time and reducing operational costs. We can help protect your data from accidental disclosure, malicious attacks and insider risk. As the healthcare industry continues to adopt remote work and telehealth, there is one particular Proofpoint solution that stands out for its ability to help safeguard data. That\'s Proofpoint Insider Threat Management (ITM). It monitors user and data activity on endpoints. And it allows security teams to detect, investigate and respond to potential data l | Ransomware Data Breach Threat Medical Cloud | ★★ | |
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2023-09-14 05:00:42 | Maximiser les soins aux patients: sécuriser le cheval de travail des e-mails des portails de santé, des plateformes et des applications Maximizing Patient Care: Securing the Email Workhorse of Healthcare Portals, Platforms and Applications (lien direct) |
In the modern healthcare industry, healthcare portals, platforms and applications serve as tireless workers. They operate around the clock, making sure that crucial information reaches patients and providers. At the heart of it all is email-an unsung hero that delivers appointment reminders, test results, progress updates and more. Healthcare portals, platforms and applications and many of the emails they send contain sensitive data. That means they are a top target for cyber criminals. And data breaches can be expensive for healthcare businesses. Research from IBM shows that the average cost of a healthcare data breach-$10.93 million-is the highest of any industry. In addition, IBM reports that since 2020 data breach costs have increased 53.3% for the industry. In this post, we explore how a Proofpoint solution-Secure Email Relay-can help healthcare institutions to safeguard patient information that is transmitted via these channels. Healthcare technology in use today First, let\'s look at some of the main types of healthcare portals, platforms and applications that are in use today. Patient portals. Patient portals have transformed the patient and provider relationship by placing medical information at patients\' fingertips. They are a gateway to access medical records, view test results and schedule appointments. And they offer patients a direct line to communicate with their healthcare team. The automated emails that patient portals send to patients help to streamline engagement. They provide useful information and updates that help people stay informed and feel more empowered. Electronic health record (EHR) systems. EHR applications have revolutionized how healthcare providers manage and share patient information with each other. These apps are digital repositories that hold detailed records of patients\' medical journeys-data that is used to make medical decisions. EHR apps send automated emails to enhance how providers collaborate on patient care. Providers receive appointment reminders, critical test results and other vital notifications through these systems. Health and wellness apps. For many people, health and wellness apps are trusted companions. These apps can help them track fitness goals, monitor their nutrition and access mental health support, to name a few services. Automated emails from these apps can act as virtual cheerleaders, too. They provide users with reminders, progress updates and the motivation to stick with their goals. Telemedicine platforms. Telemedicine platforms offer patients access to virtual medical consultations. They rely on seamless communication-and emails are key to that experience. Patients receive emails to remind them about appointments, get instructions on how to join virtual consultations, and more. The unseen protector: security in healthcare emails Healthcare providers need to safeguard patient information, and that includes when they rely on healthcare portals, platforms and applications to send emails to their patients. Proofpoint Secure Email Relay (SER) is a tool that can help them protect that data. SER is more than an email relay. It is a security-centric solution that can ensure sensitive data is only exchanged within a healthcare ecosystem. The solution is designed to consolidate and secure transactional emails that originate from various clinical and business apps. SER acts as a guardian. It helps to ensure that compromised third-party entities cannot exploit domains to send malicious emails-which is a go-to tactic for many attackers. Key features and benefits of Proofpoint SER Here are more details about what the SER solution includes. Closed system architecture Proofpoint SER features a closed-system approach. That means it permits only verified and trusted entities to use the email relay service. This stringent measure can lead to a drastic reduction in the risk associated with vulnerable or compromised email service providers. No more worrying about unauthorized users sending emails in your business\'s name. Enhanced security contro | Data Breach Tool Medical Cloud | ★★ |
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