US healthcare providers may need to boost cybersecurity measures, as proposed by the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services. Measures include multi-factor authentication, encrypted patient data and compliance checks. The proposals are projected to cost $9 billion in the first year. The move follows increasing ransomware attacks in the healthcare sector and significant data breaches.

The NHS needs to tighten its third-party supplier cybersecurity
The NHS should proactively fortify cybersecurity within its third-party software suppliers following recent damaging ransomware attacks, says Jonathan Lee from Trend Micro. He suggests implementing