Report: New cyber center a step forward for health care sector at risk

Fifth Domain: A new analysis has been released explaining the importance of maintaining oversight and regulation on the health care sector.

“HHS’ HCCIC Takes a Quantum Leap Forward to Secure the Health Sector: A Fortunate Solution to the Rampant Risk of Minimalistic, Self-Governing Bureaucracy,” released by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), examines why the health care sector is unable to oversee itself and why the Healthcare Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center is essential to securing medical information.

The HCCIC would put an end to the “self-regulating, checkbox-driven security standards” that will allow healthcare organizations to “skirt liability,” the analysis declares, and allow for effective oversight and management of the health care sector’s security.

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