October is Cybersecurity Month – Free Resources and Tools

Below are several free activities and tools available for you for the month of October which is Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

Webinar: Cybersecurity Information Sharing in Healthcare: Deciphering A Widely Misunderstood Policy Landscape.

Join us on Oct. 23 from 2-3:30 p.m. ET for a webinar that tackles common misunderstandings and perceptions separating fact from fiction around information sharing. The event is co-sponsored with the Health Sector’s Coordinating Council’s Joint Cybersecurity Working Group as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Go here for more details. Go here to add this event to your calendar. Several feature our members!

Free Townhall (Virtual Option): 

UChicago Medicine and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), including the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), will discuss the current cybersecurity threats we all face and how to best protect our patients, our institutions and ourselves. For information and to register, go here. A webinar (virtual) option will be available.

“405d” Resources (Cyber Best Practices): 

What is “405d”? It is a joint public-private partnership that has created free resources and tools around a set of 10 best practices for providers tailored to those who are small, medium and large in size with varying levels of cyber sophistication. Go here for a list of webinars, blogs and videos.

Not a Member of the Health Sector Coordinating Council? 

Join now – it’s free. It is a “coalition of industry associations and their members. It has been a platform for collaboration among healthcare industry leaders and the government for more than a decade to address the most pressing security and resiliency challenges to the healthcare sector as a whole.” By joining you will be able to participate in and have access to multiple free resources and lend your voice to protecting our sector. Several CHIME and AEHIS members are on the executive committee. 

Go here to sign up