2022 Cybersecurity Predictions

whitePaper | August 19, 2022

Healthcare entities continue to face evolving cybersecurity threats that can put patient safety, privacy and operations at risk. Health information security breaches occur daily and will continue to accelerate as cyber-criminals recognize the value of patient data and the critical need for provider organizations to keep systems up and running. The cost of a data breach is astounding, and one few healthcare organizations can absorb as they continue to deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

whitePaper | March 5, 2020

Held Hostage in Hollywood: In February 2016 the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, in Los Angeles, paid a ransom of about US$17,000 to hackers who infiltrated and disabled its computer network with ransomware. The hospital paid the ransom of 40 Bitcoins (currently worth about $16,664) after a “network infiltration” began on February 5, when employees reported being unable to access the hospital’s network and electronic medical records system. “The malware locked access to certain computer systems and prevented us from sharing communications electronically,” said hospital CEO Allen Stefanek.

whitePaper | June 13, 2022

Many cyber-attacks involve ransomware, a form of malicious software or malware, designed to deny access to a computer system or data until a ransom is paid and a decryption key (commonly called a decryptor) is given to the victim. The encryption is virtually unbreakable without the decryption key, and you should not spend valuable time seeking a way around the encryption if you are attacked with it. Ransomware can spread in multiple ways, but most typically, through phishing emails or by unknowingly visiting an infected website. Ransomware can be catastrophic to healthcare and other organizations, preventing critical information and systems for patient care from being accessed, for example.

whitePaper | March 14, 2023

This document describes data that is exchanged between the Hardware Management Console (HMC) and the IBM Service Delivery Center (SDC). In addition, it also covers the methods and protocols for this exchange. This includes the configuration of “Call Home” (Electronic Service Agent) on the HMC for automatic hardware error reporting. All the functionality that is described herein refers to Power Systems HMC and the HMC that is used for the IBM Storage System DS8000.

whitePaper | February 20, 2020

As the threat landscape continues to evolve, your cybersecurity efforts must follow suit. With your security operations center (SOC) at the core of your offense against threats, you must ensure that it can handle anything that comes its way. To be effective, you need to mature your SOC to stop threats early — before damage occurs. Whether your SOC is a virtual team of two to three or a 24x7 operation, maturing your security operations capabilities will help you achieve a faster mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) to cyberthreats. This white paper explores LogRhythm’s Security Operations Maturity Model (SOMM), which explains how to measure the effectiveness of your security operations. Through the model, you can learn how to mature your security operations capabilities, improving your resilience to cyberthreats.

whitePaper | August 16, 2022

Another half-year through unprecedented times has passed. But as unique as these times may feel, we continue to see familiar exploits, names, and attacks taking up space. To help you and your business feel confident in your ability to protect yourself against the threats that continue to come our way, this report looks back on the cyber threat landscape of the first half of 2022 using our global array of sensors monitored by FortiGuard Labs. Here’s what we learned: