Cyber Work Group Urges Health Care Orgs To Harmonize Privacy, Security Teams

The Health Sector Coordinating Council’s (HSCC) cybersecurity arm is urging companies to improve the coordination between their privacy and security teams to ensure cybersecurity and data privacy risks are mitigated -- warning a disconnect between the teams exposes companies to potential fines, corrective action, litigation or reputational harm. Coordination between the two teams can help organizations comply with regulatory requirements like having to report a data breach within a certain number of days and other relevant deadlines, the coalition of...