2022 Cybersecurity Awareness Month
2022 is Health-ISAC’s 6th Year as a Cybersecurity Awareness Champion.
Each October, public and private organizations around the world dedicate the month to cybersecurity awareness messaging. This year, Health-ISAC is sharing resources from the United States, Europe, and Australia. The U.S. National Cybersecurity Alliance 2022 theme is “It’s Easy to Stay Safe Online,” reminding internet users there are plenty of simple ways to keep personal information and private data secure when browsing and using the internet.
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has resources for this year’s focus on Phishing and Ransomware.
The Australian Cyber Security Centre’s 2022 overarching theme is “Have You Been Hacked?” Other key messaging for the month from ACSC are securing email and step-by-step instructions for overall online security.
In addition to opening some Member resources to the public, such as Daily Cyber Headlines, Health-ISAC has created informational videos to reinforce cyber hygiene related to keeping medical devices such as wearable devices protected and the data secured, enabling
multi-factor authentication, using strong passwords and a password manager, and recognizing and reporting phishing.
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Health-ISAC Daily Cyber Headlines
During the month of October, Health-ISAC will be providing a special public version of the Daily Cyber Headlines we send out each day to our membership. These are current articles selected by the Health-ISAC Threat Operations Center that are of particular interest to healthcare security stakeholders and will be placed on this page each day and shared on Health-ISAC’s social media platforms.
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In partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), this organization offers sharable resources and October events and speakers throughout the month on this website.
For the 10th consecutive year the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) is partnering with the Commission and Member States in carrying out #CyberSecMonth: the EU’s annual campaign dedicated to promoting cybersecurity among EU citizens and organisations and providing up-to-date online security information through awareness raising activities and sharing of good practices.
Cyber security is important for everyone. The first steps are turning on automatic software updates, regularly backing up your devices, switching on multi-factor authentication, using passphrases, securing mobile devices, and watching out for cyber scams. Find resources and more in the link in this title or the image above.
A podcast series to highlight Cybersecurity Awareness Month to be released consecutively in October. 1. Healthcare is critical infrastructure? 2. Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) Toolkit 3. What cybersecurity threats to protect against and how 4. Cybersecurity contract language for MDMs and HDOs 5. Doctor’s view of cybersecurity threats in healthcare 6. Your healthcare supply chain 7. An extended clinical outage (cyberattack) experience 8. Building your healthcare cybersecurity workforce 9. TeleMedicine, TeleHealth and TeleCyber security
Wearable Medical Devices are everywhere.
What can we do to ensure these wearable devices, from smart watches to insulin
pumps, and the personal health data they collect are secure? Health-ISAC’s chief security officer, Errol Weiss asks these questions to Phil Englert, Health-ISAC’s new director of medical devices security. This is a 5-minute video worthy of watching for everyone in our families.
Link to video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6-_vKzO65vs
Links to resources mentioned in the video:
Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/gp/
Apple
https://support.apple.com/en-
Google
http://www.google.com/intl/en-
Tips to Secure Email, Smartphones, Accounts and More from Health-ISAC
Health-ISAC Tips and Reasons to Implement Multi-Factor Authentication
Health-ISAC Chief Security Officer, Errol Weiss, shares some easy-to-implement tips and tricks secure your email with multi-factor authentication (MFA), how to recognize and avoid clicking on “urgent” phishing emails and messages, how to do monthly updates on all your internet-connected systems and why you should. Video includes useful links to get these security changes implemented quickly. Please give this video and thumbs up and share it with your friends and family, especially during October’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
Link to video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0QRC0QrVcZk
Shareable Slides
Download the slide presentation from the above video for useful cybersecurity tips anyone can put into action today.
Link to slide deck:
https://h-isac.org/wp-content/uploads/Health-ISAC-Cybersecurity-Tips-CSAM-October-.pptx
H-ISAC is all about increasing cyber resilience in the healthcare sector. We are interested in disseminating actionable content that is in keeping with security thought leadership. In alignment with this statement, we do not require your email to download original content from our website.