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Worried About Cybersecurity and Its Effect on Healthcare? NIST Wants to Know
Whether you are feeling stellar about your practice health IT or you’ve just reported a cybersecurity breach, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants to hear from you.
“The National Institute of Standards and Technology is currently leading a national research effort to address a serious problem facing not only the cybersecurity community, but all organizations regardless of sector, type or size,” the NIST survey says. “There is little empirical research and evidence specifying exactly which cybersecurity strategies, policies and operational controls are actually effective in bolstering corporate ITdefenses.”
The survey, which is anonymous and runs until March 15, 2017, will be reviewed by a variety of health IT illuminati from government leaders to industry experts to academics in the field. NIST hopes to use your valuable input to impact policy changes, improve data quality, and highlight the importance of cybersecurity inhealthcare.
“Enterprises and government organizations will be ableto analyze and understand the extent and adequacyof their cyber defenses and gain actionable insights on where and how to bolster defenses,” the NIST survey explains.
If you want to offer up your opinion on healthcare cybersecurity to NIST, visit http://csrc.nist.gov/news_events/cyberchain-survey.pdf.
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