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Healthcare Cyberattacks Lead to Increased Mortality, Lower Patient Care: Ponemon Study

eSecurity Planet

Nearly a quarter of healthcare organizations hit by ransomware attacks experienced an increase in patient mortality, according to a study from Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint released today. Preparedness is even worse for supply chain attacks and BEC, with only 44% and 48% having a documented response to those attacks, respectively.

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Understanding and Documenting the Basis of Retention Periods

ARMA International

Highly regulated industries have even more of a recordkeeping burden, but those should be documented as well. A training presentation for example, or a product announcement. Then it is up to the records manager to query the owners to determine the expected need for retention and document that reasoning for future records managers.

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Ways to Develop a Cybersecurity Training Program for Employees

Security Affairs

While you may disagree, data breach studies show that employees and negligence are the most typical causes of security breaches, yet these prevalent issues are least discussed. According to another study by CybSafe, human errors have been responsible for over 90% of data breaches in 2020. Customize Your Security Training.

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The False Economy of Deprioritising Security

IT Governance

A 2022 Proofpoint study found that 76% of UK board members believed their organisation to be at risk of a material cyber attack in the next 12 months – higher than the global average of 65%. However, the 2023 edition of that study found that this had dropped to 44% in the UK, whereas the global average had climbed to 73%.

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New Book by Facet first in series of titles for Academic Publishers

CILIP

The Scholarly Communication Handbook is the first in a series of books for academic publishing, with Sustainable Development and Introduction to Documentation Studies that will be available in 2024. The materials in this book can be adapted by postgraduate programmes as well as used for career development training of PHD students.

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3 Reasons You Need Incident Reporting Training

KnowBe4

3 Reasons for Incident Response Training. Given the human connection, a security awareness training component promoting the importance of reporting potential cybersecurity or data privacy incidents is crucial. In fact, a recent Ponemon study showed that 77% of businesses lack proper incident response plans.

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51 Must-Know Phishing Statistics for 2023

IT Governance

A UK government study found that half of adults said they had received a phishing message in the previous month. Other popular attack methods are script files (23%), Office documents (19%) and PDF documents (6%). Amazon Prime Day is the most active period for phishing attacks, according to an AtlasVPN study.

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