Industry Perspectives
Analysis and curated insights on systemic risk, emerging threats, and the evolving healthcare risk landscape.
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.
Read Post >>QMSR Inspection Manual: Connected Device Impact
Link each device version to risks, tests, approvals, supplier records, and field history to ensure QMSR inspection readiness.
Read Post >>HITRUST Assessments and Continuous Monitoring
Pair HITRUST assessments with targeted continuous monitoring to detect configuration drift, vendor changes, and overdue remediation.
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