Author: Sean Stadelman

Cyber Breach / Cyber Risk / Regulation

Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices

Earlier this year the Department of Health and Human Services issued a report that in part detailed practices hospitals can use to avoid cyberattacks against the health care industry. The genesis of the report was the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 (CSA) and more specifically, section 405(d). That section calls for “aligning health care industry security approaches.” The forward to the report provides that “industry and government came together under the auspices of the 405(d) task group…focused on building a set of voluntary, consensus-based principles to… Continue Reading
Data Privacy

Data Breach Settlement Highlights Need for Proactive Management of Data Security Threats

Lincare Inc. recently agreed to settle a class action lawsuit for $875,000. The class plaintiffs consisted of employees whose personal information was compromised in 2017. The breach involved a business email compromise scam. The settlement amount is not the only cost to the company and in fact may cost less than implementing remedial measures (credit/identity monitoring) and IT reforms to prevent such an incident from happening in the future. For example, the settlement terms dictate that an additional two years of free credit and identity… Continue Reading