Here are five facts to know:
1. Healthcare organizations should implement a defense-in-depth strategy by using multiple countermeasures to protect the integrity of the enterprise information.
2. The strategy should address issues including ownership of data security, user authentication and authorization, intense governance, data usage policy, sensitivity of data, detect infiltration and ensure the system is up-to-date.
3. Encryption strategies should be applied to all data whether in transit or at rest.
4. The security policy a healthcare agency implements should outline how and when the organization will conduct risk assessment for all IT infrastructure components.
5. Security professionals should disable or remove the servers or hardware not deemed essential to operations.
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