Halloween is just around the corner, and October started out with some pretty scary stuff. 2019 has already been a particularly terrifying year when it comes to ransomware attacks. Depending on how...
Nextech is committed to providing protection for the systems and data that our customers use to operate their practices. Employing a variety of high-tech security tools including intrusion detection...
Nextech is committed to protecting our customers both within our health care technology systems and through our communication channels. We recommend that our customers and all health care providers...
Before venturing out to attend the 2016 Nextech EDGE conference last week, I decided to write a bit of a teaser blog article on a topic I was covering at my session on cybersecurity—Social...
On this blog, we’ve had a lot of discussion about the problem of human behavior when it comes to cybersecurity. For example, we have looked at the Sony Pictures breach, which was caused by...
In our last blog article, we took a look at how human behavior is the most frequently encountered threat to data security. So, what to do? You can’t have 100 percent control over every problematic...
Last week, health plan provider Centene disclosed that they had lost track of six hard drives containing the private information of roughly 950,000 individuals. These records contained details such...
On December 18, just weeks before the end of 2015, Congress passed its usual Federal Omnibus Government Spending package for the year. Included in this piece of legislation was a certain...
According to data compiled by IBM X-Force Interactive Security Incidents, just shy of 100,000,000 healthcare records have been compromised by data breaches in 2015. And the vast majority of these...
A recent study conducted and released by NetSfere Enterprise Messaging took a close look at how messaging apps are being used in today’s business world. Some of the study’s findings regarding...
