Federal regulators are reminding healthcare entities and business associates of the serious security and privacy risks that terminated employees can pose. Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report identified healthcare as the industry with the highest number of insider breaches. Many healthcare workers are not the provider organization’s employees, an expert says. Failed termination and job change processes leave a user’s access open to misuse by the former staff member or by a current worker who wants to hide inappropriate actions, she says. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights issues a monthly cybersecurity newsletter on Thursday.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/mitigating-threats-posed-by-terminated-employees-a-10503