SANS Institute Launches Healthcare Cybersecurity Awareness Suite

WASHINGTON - Dec. 10, 2014 - PRLog -- Washington, DC – SANS Institute’s (www.SANS.org) Securing The Human (www.securingthehuman.org) today announced that it is launching a derivative product of its industry-leading cybersecurity end-user training, created specifically for the U.S. Healthcare sector.

SANS debuts the market’s most comprehensive Healthcare sector-specific cybersecurity awareness suite in Securing The Human Healthcare (STH.Healthcare). This product launch immediately follow SANS’ second annual Healthcare Cybersecurity Summit in San Francisco, CA, co-hosted by SANS and the National Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center (NH-ISAC).

STH.Healthcare comes at a critical time, with breaches emanating from professional-level attacks rapidly increasing, and with Healthcare now the single most targeted sector by hackers.  According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (www.idtheftcenter.org), in 2013 the Healthcare sector accounted for over 43% of the total disclosed breaches, overtaking the Business sector’s 34% for the first time.  With all breaches affecting 500 or more individuals needing be publically disclosed in accordance of section 13402(e)(4) of the HITECH Act, the impetus for the Healthcare sector to manage this risk has never been higher.

SANS STH.Healthcare is the first product in the industry to move Healthcare IT beyond its historic focus on compliance-based issues to a focus on cyber-threat risk-management. “Our goal is to enhance cybersecurity hygiene of the Healthcare sector,” says Managing Director John Fitzgerald, “via focused, modular training for all of a Healthcare organization's employees, from the hospital volunteers to the surgeons.”

About SANS Securing The Human

SANS Securing The Human (STH) is the industry leader in Security Awareness training.  STH provides companies, non-profits, and governments with the materials they need to create and maintain engaging, high-impact security awareness programs via end-user training for their entire organizations.  More information about STH can be found on its website, http://www.securingthehuman.org/u/5G.