Hackers Hold Hollywood Healthcare Hostage

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid a $17,000 ransom in bitcoin to hackers who seized control of the hospital’s computer systems holding them a healthcare hostage. The cyber assault on Hollywood Presbyterian occurred Feb. 5, 2016, when hackers using malware infected the institution’s computers, preventing hospital staff from being able to communicate from those devices.

In 2015 the most cyber crime bloodletting occurred in healthcare and 2016 is already trending to the same trajectory. Cyber security providers out there offer Band-aid solutions but what the healthcare industry needs is a cure. Continuum GRC has the solution that can inoculate your organization against these threats, preventing hackers from holding your patients and your business a healthcare hostage.

What could Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center have done differently to have avoided being a victim to hackers? For starters, they could have taken a proactive approach and identified where their risks were, but instead they took a reactive approach, and now their business has been damaged. The cyber security experts at Continuum GRC know that when you take a proactive approach to security, compliance, audit and governance, you eliminate the potential for sending your business to the emergency room or worse yet, the morgue!

The following steps are proven to help:

1. Conduct a systematic standards-based risk assessment of your organization
2. Complete an internal controls assessment using industry frameworks to guide you through the process
3. Proactively review all threat vectors eliminating them before criminals exploit them

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Why are data breaches escalating?

Could it be that this problem threatening business and consumers alike is directly related to service auditors and security assessors are still using the same audit and assessment tools again this year? Data breaches are escalating and the technology your service provider is using and the way they conduct assessments may be the problem.

Fact 1

Traditional audit and assessment sampling rates are up to 15% of the total population of available evidence and artifacts. This leaves an 85% margin of error! Imagine of you lost 85% of your vision. How well would you be able to see the world around you?

ITAM enables a sampling rate of 100% through advance automation and proactive assessment capabilities giving you and your assessors perfect 20/20 visibility into your organization. You will spot the problems before cyber criminals do.

FACT 2

Traditional audit and assessment tools involve the square peg in a round hole adaptation of a simple spreadsheet. There are huge implications and opportunities for the breakdown of cyber security, audit and compliance assessment efforts simply due to the technical limitations of a spreadsheet. Adding insult to injury is that, due to this antiquated approach, it is impossible to document audit and assessment responses in a meaningful way.

ITAM has Big Data capabilities engineered into it with unlimited assessment field and 100% SQL table usage maximizing your ability to manage assessment information and meaningful responses. Check out exactly what the technical limits are on that spreadsheet.

Fact 3

When an estimated 96% of all data breach potential is eliminated by simple and intermediate controls. The identification and examination of these requires an approach that is well established in best practice proactive methodologies; that is considering the big picture and not a paltry 15%; that provides an active roadmap and gets you to the successful destination regardless of your level of expertise; and does not break the bank.

The IT Audit Machine provides all of these advantages and so much more in an extremely affordable package any organization can afford and avoid being on the next industry report of data breaches. When 60% of SMB’s are out of business within 6 months of a data breach, why risk your company, livelihood and reputation?

Still doing security audit and compliance assessments the same old way?

The definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result. Data breaches are occurring at an alarming and escalating rate despite the traditional assessment methodology and  tools. It’s time to shake up and wake up the cyber security industry with Continuum GRC; the innovators and cyber security agitators who bring the IT Audit Machine to you.

Why pay for your current security audit third-party providers overhead and antiquated assessment processes when you can significantly reduce your expenses and increase your profit margins simply by using our cutting-edge GRC tools? Work smarter, not harder by using our proactive industry changing security audit GRC software solutions available only from Continuum GRC.

Our security audit GRC solutions break industry paradigms that have plagued both client organizations and service providers alike. We’d like to show you how we have taken our real-world expertise and created security audit GRC solutions that are being touted as game-changing technology. Call Continuum GRC software solutions today at 1-888-896-7580 and schedule a demonstration.

Our GRC software solutions make you a whopping 180% faster on average with GRC assessments and reporting processes. Our intelligently designed GRC tools get you from zero to compliance in record time by eliminating the audit anarchy you are accustomed to. There is a superior solution to this old-school problem and Continuum GRC provides it. Call 1-888-896-7580 today.

Contact us to learn more about why since our founding in 2000, the professionals at Continuum GRC, a proud veteran owned business, has been completely committed to you and your business success. Regardless of whether you represent the private sector or the public sector, we stand ready to partner with your organizations. Our competition may want to keep you and your employees in the dark where security, risk, privacy and governance are concerned hoping to conceal their methodology and expertise. We don’t prescribe to that philosophy. We believe the best approach is transparent and built on a partnership developed on trust and credibility that creates sustainability for your organization. Contact us to learn more.

Continuum GRC’s primary purpose is to help organizations attain, maintain, and demonstrate compliance and information security excellence – in any jurisdiction. Continuum GRC specializes in IT security, risk, privacy, governance, cyberspace law and compliance leadership solutions and is fully dedicated to global success in these disciplines. Contact us to find out more!