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ARTICLE · 15 NOVEMBER 2018

HHS Announces New Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center

On October 29, 2018, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Eric Hargan announced the official opening of the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3).

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On October 29, 2018, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Eric Hargan announced the official opening of the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3). HC3 is an operational cybersecurity center designed to support and improve the cyber defense of the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector of critical infrastructure. The HPH sector is compromised of hundreds of public and private enterprises, including healthcare delivery organizations and medical device manufacturers. The HPH sector of critical infrastructure is one of 16 sectors of critical infrastructure recognized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as critical because the assets, systems, and networks within those sectors are so vital to the U.S. that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, and/or national public health.

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