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How to Combat Ransomware: Q&A with a Healthcare CISO

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Littman helped build a world-class infrastructure for Kelsey-Seybold Clinic based on Pure Storage® FlashBlade® to ensure medical records and data are always available to the healthcare workers who support the patients of this large, multi-specialty clinic system serving the Houston area. Do you have two-factor authentication?

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What Is Cyber Extortion? Tips for Securing Your Data

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Once installed, the malware locks critical files and displays a ransom note demanding payment, often in cryptocurrency. Data breaches wreaked havoc on businesses from data management to healthcare in 2024. Publicized breaches erode confidence, particularly in industries like finance and healthcare, where data security is paramount.

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Data Protection Predictions from Experts for 2025

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Reproductive rights, immigration, healthcare/medical data, location tracking and surveillance will all get additional legislation to protect associated rights to restrict sharing of their data. Healthcare and medical data in particular will remain under strict scrutiny when it comes to consumer privacy online.

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Using mobile devices in your medical practice? Here’s how to be HIPAA-compliant

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Mobile devices are so ubiquitous and full of useful features that it’s not surprising that medical professionals use these when administering healthcare services. Healthcare professionals lack training on how to use mobile devices in a HIPAA-compliant manner. Users tend to be more careful not to share the issued devices.

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Managing the Perils of Data Exfiltration

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healthcare industry , sensitive patient data was exfiltrated from a UnitedHealth subsidiary that processes prescriptions for over 100 million patients. A common technique is to hack into a worker’s email and use that access to impersonate that worker in sending an email to colleagues that’s loaded with malware links.

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Managing the Perils of Data Exfiltration

Pure Storage

healthcare industry , sensitive patient data was exfiltrated from a UnitedHealth subsidiary that processes prescriptions for over 100 million patients. A common technique is to hack into a worker’s email and use that access to impersonate that worker in sending an email to colleagues that’s loaded with malware links.

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What Is Wiperware? 10 FAQs

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10 FAQs by Pure Storage Blog Wiperware, or wiper malware, is a disturbing evolution in cyber warfare that takes no prisoners—not even your data. Attacks attributed to this new, highly destructive form of malware include an Iranian train system attack in 2021 that caused “unprecedented chaos.” What Is Wiperware?

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