Industry Perspectives
Analysis and curated insights on systemic risk, emerging threats, and the evolving healthcare risk landscape.
10 Questions to Ask AI Vendors Before Audits
Essential questions to vet healthcare AI vendors—covering performance guarantees, PHI protection, liability, governance, security, explainability, and audit readiness.
Read Post >>Vendor Compliance Monitoring with Real-Time Dashboards
Real-time dashboards centralize vendor compliance for healthcare—continuous monitoring, automated alerts, audit-ready records, and faster reassessments.
Read Post >>The Safety-Performance Trade-off: Balancing AI Capability with Risk Control
How healthcare can balance AI benefits with safety: tackling black-box models, adversarial attacks, ransomware, and hybrid governance.
Read Post >>“From Checkbox to Strategy: Elevating the Role of the Risk Assessor”
Healthcare risk assessors must transition from compliance to strategic management, prioritizing patient safety and operational resilience against cyber threats.
Read Post >>Cloud Vendor Risk Management for Healthcare: Security, Compliance, and Continuity
Practical steps to assess cloud vendor security, enforce HIPAA/HITRUST, and ensure business continuity to protect patient data and care delivery.
Read Post >>Clinical AI: Where Innovation Meets Patient Safety
Overview of clinical AI use, risks, and governance: managing bias, diagnostic errors, data privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance to protect patients.
Read Post >>The SAFER Guides Sat on the Shelf While the EHR Went Dark
Assign owners, run offline downtime drills, and validate EHR recovery—don’t accept a restored login as readiness.
Read Post >>PCI Compliant and Still Catastrophically Exposed
PCI compliance doesn't guarantee patient-care safety. Test payment boundaries, vendor access, segmentation, and clinical recovery plans.
Read Post >>The Medical Device Security Gap Healthcare Has Ignored for Years
Name device owners, assess clinical impact, enforce controls, and verify fixes across the medical device lifecycle.
Read Post >>Everyone Touches TPRM, No One Owns It
Assign a single TPRM program owner, enforce approval gates, and track vendor risks from onboarding through offboarding.
Read Post >>More Cybersecurity Tools, More Breaches: Healthcare's Open Secret
Audit SIEM, endpoints and vulnerability workflows—measure coverage, ownership, and verified fixes before buying more tools.
Read Post >>The GRC Paradox: Spending More and Growing Less Safe
Stop equating paperwork with safety: make GRC decisions based on verified risk reduction, owners, deadlines, and tests.
Read Post >>How Dynamic Access Policies Reduce PHI Exposure
Reduce PHI exposure with role-based baselines, live risk signals, session rechecks, scoped access, and auditable break-glass.
Read Post >>Passwordless Authentication in Healthcare
Guidance on using passkeys, hardware security keys, and magic links in healthcare—matching methods to roles, risk, and recovery.
Read Post >>HIPAA Cloud Encryption vs End-to-End Encryption
Choose encryption by who can read ePHI and how recovery works—labels don't make a service HIPAA compliant.
Read Post >>Single-Site vs Multi-Site Backup: Healthcare Risks
Balance speed, cost, and isolation: compare single-site vs multi-site healthcare backups and test recovery against clinical RTO/RPO.
Read Post >>Privacy Risk Assessments for Healthcare: 7 Steps
Seven practical steps to map PHI flows, assess risks, verify safeguards, and track remediation for healthcare privacy.
Read Post >>Security Benchmarking Practices for Healthcare Maturity Models
Use evidence-based healthcare security benchmarking to prioritize risks, fund high-impact fixes, validate controls, and protect patient care.
Read Post >>How Outdated Device Firmware Drives Hospital Risk
Outdated device firmware risks patient safety and PHI; verify versions, score clinical impact, and safely update or contain devices.
Read Post >>How Clinical Apps Meet ISO 27001 Controls
Map clinical-app risks to ISO 27001 controls with owners, tests, and evidence to protect PHI, availability, and patient safety.
Read Post >>Third-Party Component Audits for Medical Devices
Audit third‑party medical device components: reconcile SBOMs, verify supplier controls, assess vulnerabilities, and monitor lifecycle risk.
Read Post >>FDA Device Cybersecurity Q&A: Flaw Identification
Practical steps to turn CVE alerts into device-level conclusions: SBOM checks, validation, ownership, and documented remediation.
Read Post >>Wireless Security in Medical Devices: FDA Guide
Trace wireless risks to patient harm, map controls to tests, and build FDA-ready premarket and postmarket cybersecurity evidence.
Read Post >>AWS vs Azure vs GCP: Healthcare Policy Review
Pick the cloud that passes PHI control and recovery tests, not the one with the best dashboard.
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