HITConsultant: Healthcare Cyber Hygiene - 5 Best Practices to Protect Patient Data

1. Train employees: Technical, administrative, and clinical staff are the first line of defense in everyday cyber hygiene.
2. Encrypt data: Data should be encrypted, both in transit over the network or in email, and while stored.
3. Back up everything: Data backups are crucial to combat aggressive ransomware attacks.
4. Perform regular scanning of devices and applications.
5. Conduct regular threat modeling and penetration testing.

Source: HITConsultant
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