We look briefly at two companies that have got in touch…
Fortified Health Security have recently recently partnered with Beacon Health System to strengthen the health system’s overarching cybersecurity program. Their Kristin Deuber writes to us to say:
“The program kicked off in April 2017, during the formation of Beacon, which required the health system to consolidate policies and to implement a more unified and centralized cybersecurity program. Fortified discovered through its baseline research that the health system had moderate cybersecurity system development with data loss prevention, and had deployed a SIEM solution on limited systems. In addition, like most healthcare organizations today, there was zero SIEM visibility into their medical device inventory, as well as the risks associated with those connected devices.” She attached some deeper info, which is available on demand from us here at ProfoMedia. And we have invited their President, Dan Dodson, to write a guest article – so watch this space.
Also out of the blue, is the Proficio company, whose Tamara Yaravoy says that they have won some eleven Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. This is clearly better than my 200 mtrs swimming certificate when I was a kid. She goes on to explain in more detail:
“In the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, Proficio won gold in the Best Managed Security Services and Cybersecurity Team of the Year – North America categories. The company was also recognized with a bronze award in the Best Cybersecurity Company category, where they had competed against forty other cybersecurity companies.
Proficio secured top honors in the Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards, placing in four different categories. The company won gold in the Cyber Security Vendor Achievement of the Year category for significantly expanding its operations in North America, EMEA, and APAC, silver for Best Security Company of the Year (Services), bronze in the Best Overall Security Company of the Year category, silver in the Managed Security Services category for its SOC-as-a-Service offering, and bronze in the Managed Security Services category for its Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security services. Proficio was the only cybersecurity company to be recognized with two awards in the Managed Security Services category.
In the Cloud Computing Excellence Awards, Proficio was recognized for excellence and innovation in their SOC-as-a-Service offering. Proficio was one of only nine companies selected for this award which honors vendors that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market.
Proficio was once again awarded a placement on the Security 100 of CRN’s 2018 MSP 500 list as well as San Diego Business Journal’s Top Cybersecurity Organization List. The CRN Security 100 list is designed to help partners wade through the ever-expanding security market, from the long-standing legacy vendors to the niche players, and navigate the fast-growing security vendor market.”
Cyber security in healthcare, is expected to be the target of choice for those malovelences trying to destabilise how our services work. Last year’s attacks on UK hospitals showed the issues of Windows XP reliance, and that was just a baseline start.
You can look back at our earlier pages on other cyber vendors. Do contact these and the above vendors as this topic will become more visible as the year goes on.
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