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Making every part of your healthcare business more cyber resilient

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Healthcare Cybersecurity: The Ransomware Epidemic

This podcast highlights the unique cybersecurity vulnerabilities of the healthcare industry. Cyber-attacks can do harm to healthcare organizations on multiple fronts: There is financial damage when attackers demand a ransom, there is reputational damage when sensitive data is compromised and there are risks when health systems cannot perform critical work.

Healthcare data is also highly valuable to cyber attackers—almost 10 to 20% more than other information, such as credit card data. However, healthcare organizations on average spend less on cybersecurity than other sectors, like financial services.

The good news is that improving cybersecurity is a goal that everyone in the organization can help to achieve, from the CEO to every technology user accessing systems.  

In this podcast, Accenture Security global managing director Salwa Rafee explains what organizations can do to elevate cybersecurity measures through integrated incident response plans and improved resilience. 

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Taking care of people means taking care of data

Data is at the heart of healthcare—sensitive personal, medical, research and financial data. Protecting it is critical to humanizing healthcare. That’s why we work with payers, providers, pharma companies and public health entities to increase their resilience to cyber threats by embedding security into the technology ecosystem and across ways of working.

We combine an understanding of the healthcare industry—ecosystems, workflows, regulations, and stakeholders—with proactive and focused threat intelligence so healthcare players can improve cyber resilience to stay ahead of threats. And make healthcare more secure for all.

Cybersecurity: A Business Enabler and Accelerator

Salwa Rafee, Accenture’s Global Managing Director- Healthcare Security, talks about cybersecurity being a critical part of any enterprise strategy.

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Benefits

Cyber resilience in healthcare means preparing for threats, predicting and detecting breaches, and responding to and recovering from incidents—leveraging technology and human ingenuity.

Secure the enterprise

Healthcare organizations need end-to-end cyber defenses to reduce risk and keep going if breaches occur.

Secure patient and member data

People expect healthcare organizations to take care of their personal data like they take care of their health.

Secure delivery experiences

The evolution of care delivery is introducing ever-advancing security risks for medical devices and IoMT in clinical environments.

Capabilities

Secure journey to cloud

Build security from the ground up as healthcare organizations shift to cloud.

Ransomware and incident response

Detect, defend against and recover from threats from advanced cyber adversaries.

Medical data security and patient privacy

Protect patient and member data and infrastructure across the enterprise.

Digital identity

Streamline identity and access management across multiple integrations.

Internet of medical things security

Secure medical devices by managing risk from pre-procurement to decommissioning.

Managed security services

Scale security and compliance to stay ahead of threats while driving down costs.

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Meet our lead

Salwa Rafee

Global Managing Director – Healthcare Security, Accenture

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