HITRUST, HHS to offer monthly cyber threat briefings

Starting next month, health industry consortium HITRUST and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) will conduct monthly cyber threat briefings to help organizations better understand current and probable cyber threats and share best practices for cyber threat defense and response.

The briefings come as cyber-attacks targeted at healthcare industry organizations continues to rise.

HITRUST has established a cyber threat alerting system to notify healthcare organizations when its Cyber Threat Intelligence and Incident Coordination Center (C3) identifies high probability and impact cyber threats targeted at the healthcare industry, according to an announcement.

The no-cost monthly threat briefings will leverage the resources and content created by the HITRUST C3 and HHS Computer Security Incident Response Center to provide “more actionable” information on recent, ongoing and prospective cyber threats and events, as well as any lessons learned, according to HITRUST.

The 60- to 75-minute online briefings are intended to support healthcare organizations of all sizes as well as cyber-security maturity levels.

For more information on the briefings, go here.