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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
Source URL: http://hitconsultant.net/2018/02/19/healthcare-cyberhygiene-...