Homeland Security And HHS Release Interactive Healthcare Cybersecurity Toolkit

On Oct. 25, 2023, in light of a "significant rise in the number and severity of cyber-attacks against hospitals and health systems in the last few years," the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) collaboratively released a cybersecurity toolkit.

The toolkit is intended to help healthcare and public health organizations design and improve their cybersecurity infrastructure. The toolkit combines existing resources such as CISA's Cyber Hygiene Services, HHS' Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices, and the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Cybersecurity Framework Implementation Guide, as well as newer resources to help healthcare organizations of all types and sizes to identify, resolve and prevent vulnerabilities. According to CISA and HHS representatives, healthcare entities are prime targets for cyberattacks because they are high value but