Cyber National Neighborhood Watch: Strategies to Reduce Cyber Risks and Costs

When your community health center (CHC) experiences a cyber attack, will it be ready? How resilient do you think your CHC would be after a cyber attack? What are your CHC's cyber-hygiene culture and practices? With the national push for health care to go "digital" in the last decade, CHCs now face the same threat landscape of larger organizations with fewer cyber resources (human and financial) from which to draw upon. Much like health care professionals must wash their hands before caring for patients, CHCs must practice good cyber hygiene in today's digital world. Also, like hand-washing, a culture of cyber-readiness does not have to be complicated or expensive for CHCs, but simply effective at enabling organizations to routinely protect information that is critical to their patients and operations. Good cyber hygiene not only helps to secure protected health information (PHI) and other sensitive information, but it protects organizations and their members from civil and criminal penalties. This session is intended to arm CHCs with practical strategies to minimize the risk of a cyber threat and improve their cyber resilience (the ability to "bounce back" after a cyberattack).