Focusing on privacy and security in the coronavirus new normal

As healthcare organizations do battle against COVID-19, they also must stay on vigilant defense against cybercriminals intent on taking advantage of the crisis to sow chaos and disrupt clinical processes: barraging inboxes with pandemic-themed phishing emails, perpetrating hospital-crippling ransomware attacks, taking aim at public health agencies and vaccine research facilities.

Meanwhile, there are new places to safeguard and secure – whether they're hastily-erected ad hoc field hospitals or massively scaled up telehealth deployments. And fast-expanding efforts at contact tracing present their own unique and challenging privacy implications. In other words, just as it has with everything else, the pandemic is fundamentally changing approaches to security, and these new strategies will continue to evolve with this new normal.