The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has released the findings from its three-month review of cyber-risk management for the healthcare industry. The analysis uncovered a constant theme: that today’s approach to cybersecurity is predominantly reactive and, for the vast majority of organizations, inefficient and labor-intensive,” HITRUST’s announcement states. And Government Health IT reviews the lessons privacy and security professionals can learn from each other. Meanwhile, an SC Magazine report looks at the work of researcher Michael Goetzman on the security implications of DNA technologies. Goetzman found “that the increasingly lucrative market for data brokers may simultaneously amplify breach concerns in the healthcare sector,” the report states. Editor’s Note: IAPP President and CEO Trevor Hughes, CIPP, examined the implications of such issues for privacy pros in this Privacy Perspectives post.
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