Errol Weiss is the chief security officer of the Health-ISAC, the industry’s information sharing and analysis center. The group provides healthcare organizations with the tools to share information on cyber threats. Weiss describers it as “virtual neighborhood watch program.”
Weiss has worked in cybersecurity for over 25 years. He said that one reason health care is particularly susceptible dates back to the 1990’s when the industry first started to shift to using electronic records.
“I think the focus in those organizations at the time, as they were investing in all of these electronic health record systems and moving all the data over to those platforms, on being compliant with the HIPAA regulation and ensuring those healthcare records were were kept private, but not necessarily secure and not investing in security,” said Weiss.
Since then, the industry hasn’t invested sufficiently in cybersecurity leading to under resourced teams.
