At the first-ever Health Summit in Nashville on Tuesday, Oracle announced a new cybersecurity-focused service for its healthcare customers, Autonomous Shield.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
According to the company, the launch of the new Autonomous Shield Initiative aims to help customers migrate to comprehensive electronic health records and cloud infrastructure that can reduce cyber risks, thanks to automated capabilities. encryption and security of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Autonomous Shield aims to simplify the process of migrating Oracle Health EHR to OCI with built-in security best practices, solution architecture development, application migration, and onboarding support. into action and more.
OCI can help healthcare customers “prevent, detect and respond to security concerns with automated databases and operating systems that can automatically patch and protect against vulnerabilities latest,” the company said, while physically isolating itself and customers from each other to reduce avenues of attack. .
Always-on data encryption and multi-factor authentication by default, activity auditing and DDoS protection – plus 256-bit AES encryption for data at rest and in transit – provide protection higher.
“Cyberattacks are a present and imminent threat to the healthcare industry worldwide,” Seema Verma, general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, said in a statement.
“With clinical applications running on OCI, we provide our customers – large and small – with the same military-grade security used to protect the most sensitive data at some enterprises, largest and most sophisticated government and national defense agency around the world.”
BIGGER TREND
Cybersecurity risks in healthcare are higher than ever. Oracle Health cited a report from the US Department of Health and Human Services showing a 239% increase in the number of major hacking-related breaches and a 278% increase in the number of reported ransomware incidents over the past four years.
And while cybersecurity budgets are increasing, the company notes that vendors still only spend about 8% of their IT budgets on security – much lower than what other industries spend. .
Two years since acquiring Cerner, Oracle said it has made major investments to improve the security and performance of its core clinical applications.
After the Change Healthcare cyberattack, Oracle said it helped redirect the traffic of several large healthcare networks that used clearinghouses to other gateways for several days, helping them avoid disruption. payment period for claims worth more than $3 billion.
“Recent events in the healthcare sector have exploited vulnerabilities facing health systems around the world,” said Kemal Erkan, CEO of United Medical. “Now more than ever, it’s important for health systems to choose companies like Oracle that make security simple – easy to use, deploy and operate. Transition to Infrastructure Oracle Cloud went smoothly and gave us more confidence in the performance and security of our technology.”
ON PROFILE
Speaking with former Senate majority leader Dr. Bill Frist in Nashville on Tuesday, Oracle founder and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison described the company’s approach to underlying technology autonomous data.
“There’s a new generation of data systems called autonomous databases that are virtually unbreakable because humans don’t operate them, they’re autonomous,” He explained.
“Almost all cyber attacks start the same way: Human error,” he added. “But if you take humans out of the loop and these critical parts of your network, which manage your data, then you can’t attack those systems because they can’t be misconfigured, because humans don’t configure them. they cannot be an inside job where someone maliciously attacks the system because there is no human accessing this system. It’s all completely automatic.”
“Autonomous digital infrastructure exists, we have it,” Ellison said. “Our history is of building highly secure systems. The only way we’ve found and it’s taken a long time to make sure these systems are truly secure is because the latter has a human beings, there will be flaws, perhaps due to mistake or malice.
“And until you take the human agent out, and that’s what we ended up doing to build these systems, because to protect your data, to protect your computer systems, you, it can’t be their robots – because these are robot attacks, these are robots they built to attack our systems – it can’t be their robots against us humans . We’re going to lose that every day of the week. It has to be our robots against their robots. Once you do that, the balance of power will occur. advice for us. We have the advantage and to date, it has a consistent track record of stopping cyber attacks.”
Mike Miliard is the executive editor of Healthcare IT News
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