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Building a Cyber Resilient Healthcare System with Anahi Santiago, CISO at ChristianaCare

Welcome to the Data Security Decoded podcast, brought to you by Rubrik Zero Labs. In each installment, we discuss cybersecurity with thought leaders and industry experts, and get their take on trends, themes, and where they see the sector going next. This is a must-listen for security and IT leaders looking to better understand trends shaping data security and how they can achieve cyber resilience.

Organizational Resiliency in Healthcare: Preparing for System Downtime #shorts #healthcare

Building organizational resilience is critical in healthcare. But it's not just about preventing cyberattacks—it's about ensuring patient care continues even when systems go down. Practicing cyber resilience through well-defined downtime procedures and understanding the critical outcomes for patients is essential. As Anahi Santiago, Chief Information Security Officer at ChristianaCare, emphasizes, knowing the path to achieve these outcomes, even in a crisis, is key to maintaining high standards of care.

Netskope Threat Labs Uncovers New XWorm's Stealthy Techniques

XWorm is a relatively new versatile tool that was discovered in 2022. It enables attackers to carry out a variety of functions, which include accessing sensitive information, gaining remote access, and deploying additional malware. The multifaceted nature of XWorm is appealing to threat actors, as evidenced by its alleged use earlier this year by threat actors such as NullBulge and TA558. Through Netskope Threat Labs hunting efforts, we uncovered XWorm’s latest version in the wild.

The Number of Ransomware Attacks Around the World Increased by 73% in 2023

The number of ransomware attacks around the world increased by 73% in 2023, according to a new report by the Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force (RTF). These attacks opportunistically target organizations across all industries, but the hardest-hit sectors over the past two years have been construction, hospitals and health care, government, IT services and consulting, and financial services.

Rubrik powers Okta with critical user context to safeguard against identity attacks

Identity-based cyber attacks continue to prevail and impact organizations. Stealing credentials was the top initial action in breaches, according to Verizon. Plus, 84% of identity stakeholders surveyed said identity-related incidents directly impacted their business, resulting in reputational damages, distraction from core business, and increased recovery costs.

Multi-Region Redundancy for Stronger Data Resilience

Rubrik Cloud Vault already provides a high level of cyber resiliency against data deletion, encryption, and exfiltration through air-gapped, immutable, access-controlled backup and archival copies stored in an isolated environment. Now, for added resilience against regional failures and natural disasters, Rubrik Cloud Vault supports Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) and Geo-redundant storage (GRS), complementing our existing Local-redundant storage (LRS) option.

How the U.S. Department of Justice Can Improve Its Approach to Combat Ransomware Attacks

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General released a report on how the Department could improve its approach to combat ransomware attacks. The report included an audit and evaluated the Department’s strategy to respond and counter ransomware attacks during a two-and-a-half-year period from April 2021 through September 2023.

CDK Ransomware Attack: What It Is and How to Protect Your Business

Software platforms are being used more and more by companies to run their operations, store private data, and talk to customers. Ransomware attacks are becoming more common because people depend on them so much. One of the scariest types of hacks is the CDK ransomware attack, which is aimed at companies that use software from CDK Global.

From advisory to action: automate the FBI's RansomHub recommendations with Tines

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued a joint advisory on the RansomHub ransomware. RansomHub is a ransomware-as-a-service variant, previously known as Cyclops and Knight. Since February 2024, it has encrypted and exfiltrated data from over 210 victims spanning multiple industries.