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Cybersecurity and Your Doctor

Doctor’s offices have a mission-to take care of their patients. This focus is on the patient’s mind also as the person is sitting in the doctor’s office waiting. One way to streamline operations and potentially improve cash flow is to outsource the billing function. There are many firms focused on efficiently billing for the doctor’s services. These businesses, due to their operations, hold much of the same data as the doctor’s offices. These businesses also derive income as

Cybersecurity and Ongoing Healthcare Concerns

Healthcare continues to be a significant target. The healthcare institution’s budgets have been decreased due to a number of different issues. These include patient mobility as there are more options than ever and patient insurance payments. The latter, at best are stable however have probably been decreasing as new contracts are renegotiated. While this is occurring, the costs (direct labor, overhead, utilities, supplies, etc.) have increased. As margins continue to be narro

Cybersecurity Autonomous Cars and VW

As technology advances, there are more opportunities for vulnerabilities to be researched and published. These continue to abound throughout the industries using these technologies. With computer chips, there have been the Spectre and other vulnerabilities, and smart phones, Rowhammer and many others for the different platforms. Vehicles have the same issues, as these are much of the same equipment. There may not be as many issues published, however there are still critical i

Cybersecurity and Health Care Centers

People tend to visit their doctor every now and again for the annual check-ups, scrapes, and other issues. As the patients visit their respective doctor, the office requires certain information and the doctor have their notes from the visit. This information is important to us and have value. Most of the time, securing this is not an issue. This was not the case for Navicent Health. Navicent Health is based in Macon, GA. This is one of middle Georgia’s largest employers and h

Cybersecurity and the Arts Industry

Even the Art IndustThere are art galleries and museums throughout the nation. When the locality does not have a physical site, there is always the internet as a resource. There are services which provide an inlet into the art world for those of us not proximate to the larger museum. One of these services is Artsy, which is described as “…an online platform that offers views into the art world as well as works for sale…” (Dissent, 2019). In February 2019, the CTO, Daniel Doubr

Cybersecurity and National Government

With local municipalities, there is a local government managing the business for the town, city, village, etc. Dependent on the size of the municipality, the required governance may be significant, or lower. As each of these grows, there tends to be more staffing required, larger networks, and more responsibility to go around. National governments are no different. As these have grown, the infrastructure to support these likewise has grown to a critical mass. As these agencie

Cybersecurity and Attack on Physicians

Ransomware’s Long-Reaching Effects: Physician’s Office Shut done Physicians are located throughout the nation. These all have their specialties. As these practices vary in size, their budgets spent on cybersecurity vary greatly. The rule of thumb, for better or worse, has been the greater amount spent on cybersecurity the more intricate and hardened the system is. This, however, has not always been the case. Recently Brookside ENT and Hearing Center had the pleasure of manag

Cybersecurity and County Governments Under Attack

Genesee County under attack! -Charles Parker, II There are vast numbers of municipalities of various sizes adjacent to each other throughout each state in the nation. Each of these obviously has a computer network, of varying sizes, in place for the day to day operations. One of these counties, in Michigan, also recently had an interesting issue. Genesee County has had much written about it, as the city of Flint is at the center of the media storm. In this county, there was r

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