Report: Health Care Woefully Unprepared for Data Breach. 3 Recommendations. 3 Conclusions.

A cybersecurity report from Forrester is not good for health care. The report concludes:

• health care is ” woefully behind” in preparedness
• HIPPA compliance is not enough. HIPPA doesn’t keep up with wearable technology like GPS astham inhalers or wearable tattoos that transmit health care data.
• HHS is imposing sanctions on unprepared health care companies that suffer data breaches.

3 Recommendations:

 1) adopt two factor authentication for access to databases containing sensitive patient information;

2) use behavioral analytics to identify suspicious behavior and encrypt data;

3) realize that identity protection is no longer a good enough mea culpa.

CNBC | US health care way behind on data security, says Forrester