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Security levels and justify their beliefs, according to the study.įurther, more than half of Lockheed Martin's survey Leaders, including healthcare organization professionals, by and largeįeel "ill-equipped to handle escalating cyber threats." Inįact, Lockheed Martin found that on average about a third of businessĪnd government IT respondents "relied on their intuition or logicalĭeduction rather than data or intelligence" to assess their Tennessee hospital group, the report stated.Īlmost concurrent with Redspin's study, Lockheed MartinĬommissioned its own cybersecurity survey that found a majority of IT "more than 50 percent of the 2014 totals were caused by hackingĪttacks, including a 4.5 million patient record breach" at a Percent increase over 2013 statistics, according to Redspin. Which involved nearly 9 million patient records and represented a 25 To the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights, Last year alone, healthcare organizations reported 164 PHI breaches "more than 40 million Americans suffered a breach of their personal During thatįive-year period, which stopped short of Anthem's IT intrusion, Protected Health Information (PHI) in late February that outlined andĪnalyzed healthcare data breaches from 2009 through 2014. Security assessment services," released its 2014 Breach Report: Redspin, which provides "penetration testing and healthcare IT
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