Cybersecurity Confidence and Cybersecurity Maturity

Cybersecurity is the number one topic on most healthcare CIOs minds. It’s the number one thing that keeps them up at night. No doubt, it’s become one of the most challenging parts of their job.

These facts were illustrated really well in this chart that CIO, David Chou, shared on CIOs self reported confidence in IT security.

There’s been a drop in security trust in almost every industry, but the drop in healthcare’s trust in IT security is dramatic. As David Chou mentions, it’s likely due to all the incidents of ransomware and malware that have been all over healthcare.

What then can an organization do to improve this situation? What’s the right approach to be able to improve your confidence in your IT security?

David Chou also offered a great response to these questions in this cybersecurity maturity chart and the key to successfully implementing what’s in this chart:


There’s little doubt that effective cybersecurity takes the entire organization being on board. It can’t just be the job of the CIO or CEO or CISO. If that’s the case, it will fail and a breach will occur.

Looking at this chart, how is your organization doing on cybersecurity? How mature are your efforts? Is there room to improve?

About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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