https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/debunking-cybersecurity-thought-humans-are-weakest-link
By Tom Sullivan
Healthcare IT News
October 15, 2018
BOSTON - The time has come to move beyond the security mantra "don't click
on email links or open attachments and we'll all be safer."
"We've been saying that for 15 years and the strategy doesn't work," said
Theresa Payton, CEO of Fortalice Solutions and former White House CIO said
here on Monday at the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum.
Instead, Payton said that she is still seeing business email compromises
on the rise in healthcare.
"From a social engineering standpoint, it has never been easier to trick
employees," Payton added. "Business email compromise is one of the largest
unreported crimes after ransomware."
What's more, there's a 25 percent probability that any given healthcare
organization will be hacked in the next 2.5 years, said Salwa Rafee,
worldwide security leader for healthcare and life sciences at IBM.
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