Security threats, hackers and shadow IT still plague health ITInformation technology leaders must not only anticipate external security threats but also insider data breaches, which are becoming a growing concern, according to recent reports. To learn more, read this article from www.beckershospitalreview.com.

“‘The typical analogy I give is, particularly in healthcare, it’s a chicken egg,'” says Amit Kulkarni, CEO of Secure Healing, a healthcare privacy monitoring and reporting platform. ‘You normally have a hard shell on the outside. Your typical firewall, intrusion detection system, proxy servers. That’s essentially the outer hard shell. What’s on the inside? Once you have an employee authorization — whether you are a nurse, physician, technician, someone from IT, a social worker or a volunteer — you pretty much have unrestricted access to any and all patients’ medical records. It’s all gravy.'”

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