by William A. Boeck | February 26, 2018 | Cyber Insurance, Data Breach, Healthcare, Regulatory
No sooner did I publish my last post on regulatory coverage than I learned about a settlement between the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in the US Department of Health and Human Services and Fresenius Medical Care North America (Fresenius). The settlement is noteworthy...
by William A. Boeck | October 16, 2016 | Critical Infrastructure, Cyber Attack, Healthcare, Internet of Things, Ransomware
It’s October, Halloween is coming, and it’s time for chilling stories. In a post earlier this year I talked about the growing threat of ransomware in hospitals. The attacks continue unabated. Ransomware that prevents access to data and computer systems is...
by William A. Boeck | February 19, 2016 | Critical Infrastructure, Cyber Attack, Cyber Extortion, Cyber Insurance, Healthcare
As we all saw in 2015, hospitals and health insurers are prime targets for cyber attacks designed to obtain personal and health information of individuals. Those attacks are bad for all the obvious reasons. Worse attacks can happen though, and they can bring a...
