Cybersecurity
Cyber Threat Intelligence, Alerts and Reports
As part of the AHA’s commitment to helping hospitals and health systems prepare for and prevent cyber threats, we have gathered the latest government cyber threat intelligence and alerts and Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) reports.
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Cybersecurity & Risk Advisory
Learn how AHA can help hospitals and health systems prepare for and mitigate cyber threats through the expertise of John Riggi, AHA’s National Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk.
On December 13, 2020, FireEye and SolarWinds released security advisories detailing a highly-skilled and highly-targeted, manual supply chain attack on the SolarWinds Orion Platform network management system that leverages software updates to deploy a backdoor to victim organizations.
A highly sophisticated threat actor has stolen tools used by cybersecurity company FireEye to evaluate the security posture of enterprise systems, which unauthorized third-party users could abuse to take control of targeted systems, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency alerted organizations to a global phishing and spearphishing campaign targeting the COVID-19 vaccine cold chain, the part of the supply chain used to store and transport a vaccine at safe temperatures.
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IBM X-Force has released a report on malicious cyber actors targeting the COVID-19 cold chain—an integral part of delivering and storing a vaccine at safe temperatures. Impersonating a biomedical company, cyber actors are sending phishing and spear phishing emails to executives and global…
John Riggi, AHA senior advisor for cybersecurity and risk, testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on defending communities from cyber threats during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on defending communities from cyber threats during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cybersecurity & Compliance in the Age of Cloud Computing, COVID-19 & HIPAA
This On-Demand webinar will be available until March 2, 2021.
This edition of Hacking Healthcare looks at proposed legislation from the United Kingdom (U.K.) that appears to signal the country is resolutely moving forward with the banishment of Huawei from its telecommunications infrastructure. We break down what it means for the U.K., other countries in…
Wednesday, Dec. 09, 2020
1 - 2 p.m. Eastern; noon - 1 p.m. Central; 10 - 11 a.m. Pacific
Recap of John Riggi’s Senate Testimony on 12/2 re: Cybersecurity Threats to Hospitals