Cook Children’s migrated their disaster recovery data center to the cloud with help from a consulting firm, CDW. The process involved educating the team about working in the cloud, forecasting compute and storage needs, and factoring in human components of the change. The organization began migration for reasons of scalability and alignment with partners, but emphasized the importance of business continuity in case of a cyberattack. The first data migrated was their Epic disaster recovery data, which includes essential healthcare records.
Dispersed responsibility, lack of asset inventory is causing gaps in medical device cybersecurity
Witnesses at a House hearing on medical device cybersecurity highlighted the need for better tracking of devices and their vulnerability to cyber threats. They noted
